Dick Van Dyke Quotes

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Every time I have done things for political reasons, I have regretted it. Every time I have done what I thought was right, it has come out all right in the end.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

You have to make your choices however you see fit and just keep your integrity as best you can.

I want people raising my kid that see along the same lines of values and issues as I do.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

When there's a right and wrong thing to do, choose right regardless of what your friends do.

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.

I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.

If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.

My rule for the corporate stuff is the same as with my music - I do whatever means I can sleep at night and whatever means I can be dignified.

An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

You do what you think is right and let the law catch up.

I always felt like I was doing the right thing.

It was a morally representative act. Helms withheld the information because it would have cost him his job.

I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

My values stemmed from the family. Anything I have achieved in life has been rooted in my upbringing.

I do my research, and if I'm supporting something, then it's because it aligns with me morally and ethically.

When you are bringing up your kids, you hope you have given them some sense of right and wrong, a sense of good and bad.

My family have shaped my politics more than anything else.

I grew up feeling from a very young age that what was right was right, no matter if God or my teacher said so.

A lot of things come down to your roots and how you're brought up.