Wynton Marsalis Quotes

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Be fair in all your dealings, may it be in your family or in your business. At the end of it all, what matters is not how much money you make but how honest you are.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

Business rests squarely on the law of service. It has for its main reliance truth and faith and justice …. It is one of the greatest contributing forces to the moral and spiritual enhancement of the race.

All Americans want our government to have a moral compass.

Civilization depends on morality.

As exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness. To their principles. To what is right and wrong. To American values.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

I'll never go against my morals.

What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

Our policies must be premised on, and must reinforce, values such as family, hard work, integrity and personal responsibility.

I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.

Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity.

I will never cheat in any walk of life.

I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's decisions.

I think standing up for facts and decency is important, and we should've done more of it back in 2015 and 2016.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

Win or lose, do it fairly.