Top 20 Leadership Ethics Quotes
#1. There is no check-box for ethical leadership.
It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey.
We will never know everything that there is to know.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#2. While mistakes may be local, in today's connected world embarrassment is global
Gyan Nagpal
#3. The self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#4. A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people's love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#5. The difficulty was not that of following a moral principle at personal cost; the difficulty was that of knowing what to do when there is more than one principal, and when the principles clash.
Elton Trueblood
#6. Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.
Scott K. Edinger
#7. Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#8. Through your influence, vision, ethics and authenticity you create a better reality for your family, community and organisation, where those around you and those who follow you are inspired to dream, learn and act
Craig Dent
#10. Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
James MacGregor Burns
#11. Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#12. Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.
Alan Sakowitz
#13. Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.
Denis Waitley
#14. Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.
Edward F. Hennessey
#15. You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.
Graeme Samuel
#16. [T]hese leaders must not believe they are actually being watched, for their behavior in no way reflects the possible existence of a set of values or ethical laws that supersedes their own dominion.
Arthur C. Clarke
#17. It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.
John Harvey-Jones
#18. Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral leadership," require ethics officers to tell them whether it is or isn't permissible to grab the secretary's behind or redirect public funds to their own personal advantage?
Meg Greenfield
#19. Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.
Mollie Marti
#20. In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially "grown up" and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.
Linda Fisher Thornton
