Quotes About Ethics And Leadership

#1. It's easier to control people when they're afraid.

David O. Russell

#2. Unless today is well lived, tomorrow is not important.

Alan Sakowitz

#3. My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

Joanna Lumley

#4. 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

#5. Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

James MacGregor Burns

#6. The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. 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

#8. My friends come from many species.

Anthony D. Williams

#9. I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.

Buffalo Bill

#10. 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

#11. Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#12. Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.

Scott K. Edinger

#13. Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

Nicholas Sparks

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. While mistakes may be local, in today's connected world embarrassment is global

Gyan Nagpal

#18. Leadership responsibility is multidimensional and cannot be described in one or two words. It is personal, interpersonal, environmental and societal.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. What if I'm in charge of my own damn light switch?

Jandy Nelson

#22. [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

#23. I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.

Will Durant

#24. Most people - and I'm guilty of it as well - think of passion as hot, fiery, impulsive. But listening to you made me realize that passion can be a deep, warm, steady flame too. The kind of fire that keeps a man warm at night - or melts an ice wall that would drown a flashier spark.

Rowan Speedwell

#25. Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

Gayle Forman

#26. I am a Democrat and I love my party and I want them to have good policies and good candidates, so I hope to be supportive in some way, but I don't intend to be any kind of 'godfather' or something like that.

Tom Harkin

#27. Don't value people to the extent they begin to feel they are indispensable.

Amit Abraham

#28. It horrifies me that ethics is only an optional extra at Harvard Business School.

John Harvey-Jones

#29. 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

#30. What is sought can never produce the seeking.

B.F. Skinner

#31. The quality of the relationships that students have in class with their peers and teachers is important to their success in school.

Bob Pletka

#32. Freedom flourishes upon the bedrock of ethics and integrity.

Mollie Marti

#33. 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