Chade-Meng Tan Quotes

For me, integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

I can only focus on doing what's right.

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

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

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

I talk every day about doing the right thing.

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

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

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

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one; the man who requires you to do so is dearly purchased at a sacrifice.

We get so caught up in winning all the time, but it's also even more important to be a good person, so that's what I learned.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'

Integrity is critical to our lives - and to our dreams of achievement. We must remember that without integrity, nothing else matters and that with integrity, nothing else matters.

In any walk of life, you can choose to do the right thing.

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

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

I never think the ends justify the means.