Edward Heath Quotes

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

I have learned that the ethics of the so-called markets can be different from what we learn at school. In day-to-day life you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term it always pays off to be ethical.

Sometimes being a leader isn’t about winning. Sometimes it’s about doing what’s right, instead of what’s powerful.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Leadership is not manifested by coercion, even against the resented. Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

It is not true that people of high principle are ill-suited for politics.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

The foundation of leadership is your own moral compass. I think the best quality leaders really know where their moral compass is. They get it out when they are making decisions. It's their guide. But not only do you have to have a moral compass and take it out of your pocket, it has to have a true north.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

It is vital to any organization, to be strong and effective, to be ethical.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

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

We need moral leadership and courage in our world.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

So we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.

Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.

I think that there are certain principles which should guide decision-making for a president. One such principle was that we're all God's children, and every life is precious. To me, that's a moral statement.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.