Howard Gardner Quotes

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

Is it important to be right or is it important to do what's right? That's one of the hardest lessons to learn.

If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

In the end, you should always do the right thing, even if it's hard. I know that might not help you and that the right thing isn't always so easy to figure out.

You must always do what you feel is right.

I do what I think is right.

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

Character is long-standing habit.

I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.

I always try to follow my moral compass.

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

You have to follow your moral compass: it's a good guide of telling you what is right and wrong.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.

Sometimes you're going to be faced with situations where the line isn't clear between what's right and what's wrong.Your heart will tell you to do one thing and your brain will tell you to do something different. In the end, all that's left is to look at both sides and go with your best judgment.

Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But Conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

True success depends more on character than on intellect.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

Do whatever you can that doesn't compromise your morals.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottages princes’ palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

You are pushed to behave differently here, you don't really have a choice. If you cheat you have no chance of being admired. Even your own supporters will dislike you. So what do you do? Well, the way is not to be stupid, but not to cheat either. If there is a foul, you have to fall. I call it 'helping the referee to make a decision'. That's not cheating.