Douglas Adams (1952-2001, English author, dramatist, and musician, author of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series.)
"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

Scott Alexander (1963-Present, American writer)
"All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy."

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC, Greek philosopher and scientist, student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great)
"We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly."

Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001, American businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.)
"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist."

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992, Russian-born American author and professor of biochemistry)
"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

Theodore Bickel (American humorist)
"All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice."

William J.H. Boetcker (1873-1962, a German-born American religious leader and influential public speaker)
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."

Omar N. Bradley (1893-1981, U.S. Army field commander during World War II)
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount."

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855, British novelist)
"Conventionality is not morality."

Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama, c. 563 BC to 483 BC, spiritual teacher from ancient India and founder of Buddhism)
"Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds."

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973, also known as Sai Zhen Zhu, Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer, Nobel Prize in Literature)
"You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings."

Edmund Burke (1729-1797, Irish orator, philosopher & politician)
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

Albert Camus (1913-1960, Algerian-born French author, philosopher, and journalist who won the Nobel prize in 1957)
"Integrity has no need of rules."

Confucius (551 BC-479 BC, Chinese philosopher)
"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage."

Stephen Covey (1932-present, American leadership consultant and writer)
"Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them."

Rene Descartes (1596-1650, influential French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, and writer, "Father of Modern Philosophy" )
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

Denis Diderot (1713-1784, a French philosopher and writer during the Enlightenment)
"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it."

Roy Disney (1930-present, American film writer, producer, nephew of Walt Disney)
"It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are."

Arthur Dobrin (1943-present, writer, professor of humanities, Hofstra University)

"A Humanist Code of Ethics:
Do no harm to the earth, she is your mother.
Being is more important than having.
Never promote yourself at another's expense.
Hold life sacred; treat it with reverence.
Allow each person the dignity of his or her labor.
Open your home to the wayfarer.
Be ready to receive your deepest dreams;
sometimes they are the speech of unblighted conscience.
Always make restitutions to the ones you have harmed.
Never think less of yourself than you are.
Never think that you are more than another."

Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005, a writer, management consultant, widely considered to be the "Father of Modern Management")
"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American theoretical physicist)

• "Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted."
• "Relativity applies to physics, not ethics."

Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969, US General, 34th President of the United States)
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century)

• "The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting."
• "The greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it."
• "The highest compact we can make with our fellow is, 'Let there be truth between us two forever more.'"

Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948, a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement)

"Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principles."

Vaclav Havel (1936-present, writer, human rights advocate, President of Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic)
"Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly."

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826, philosopher and 3rd President of the United States)

• "Morals are too essential to the happiness of man to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head."
• "Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, English poet, critic, writer)
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804, Prussic-German metaphysician and philosopher)
"Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, author, 35th President of the United States)
"A man does what he must…in spite of personal consequences, in spit of obstacles and dangers, and pressures…and that is the basis of all human morality."

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968, United States religious & civil rights leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner)

• "If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."
• "The time is always right to do what is right."

Abraham Lincoln (1908-1865, 16th President of the United States)
"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion."

John D. MacDonald (1916-1986, American author)
"Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will."

Molleen Matsumura (Humanist activist and writer)
"Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people."

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592, French essayists)
"There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falseholds on the other."

Thomas Paine (1737-1809, an English pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, inventor, and intellectual.)
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."

Plato (428/427 BC - 348/347 BC a Classical Greek mathematician and philosopher, who, together with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy.)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

Ayn Rand (1905-1982, Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright and screenwriter)
"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher, author, political theorist, composer)
"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."

Dorothy Rowe (1930-present, Australian psychologist and author, renowned for her work on depression)
"We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (1 AD-65 AD, writer, philosopher)
"Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions."

Valdemar W. Setzer (Brazilian anthropologist)
"Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling."

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965, German Nobel Peace Prize-winning mission doctor and theologian)

• "Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward [people], but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical."
• "Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil."
• "The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings."

Brian Tracy (1944-present, Canadian author and speaker)
"The glue that holds all relationships together - including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity."

Mark Twain (1835-1910, also known as Samuel Clemons, American humorist and writer)

• "Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
• "Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one."

Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach (1830-1916, Vienna, née Countess Dubsky, dramatist and writer)
"Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right."

Dennis Waitley (Author of "Psychology of Winning")
"A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come."

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900, Irish dramatist and poet)
"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

Oprah Winfrey (1954-present, American television presenter, media mogul and philanthropist)
"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."