As entrepreneurs, we are always looking for ways to be more fair in our businesses. We want to be sure that everyone involved is getting a fair shake. That’s why I’ve collected some of the best fairness quotes from great minds throughout history. I hope they will help to inspire you as you work to create a more equitable business.

The best fairness quotes

1. If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness. — Peter Jackson

2. Nothing was fair. If you expected fairness, you would be forever disappointed. — A.C.H. Smith

3. Nothing was fair. If you expected fairness, you would be forever disappointed. — A.C.H. Smith

4. If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness. — Peter Jackson

5. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier. — Sheryl Sandberg

6. To impart a moral responsibility to exercise fairness in leadership builds greater leaders of strong character. — Wayne Chirisa

7. I’m a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity–these values mean a lot to me. — Mohamed ElBaradei

8. Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity. — Rush Limbaugh

9. One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions. — Noam Chomsky

10. My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value–I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone. — Mike Honda

11. Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth. — Rush Limbaugh

12. As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness. — Martin McGuinness

13. Even if you want to conjure up some things, they are not reason enough to rip America apart, particularly under the guise of fairness or whatever. It’s destructive. — Rush Limbaugh

14. Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan

15. If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one’s for use, the other useth it. — William Shakespeare

16. Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity. — Rush Limbaugh

17. I asked you to marry me–and you laughed. You thought I was joking. In fairness, I was still dressed as a Cavalier. — Scott Jackson, As I Stand Here At The Altar

18. Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth. — Rush Limbaugh

19. In theory, affirmative action certainly has all the moral symmetry that fairness requires. It is reformist and corrective, even repentent and redemptive. — Shelby Steele

20. Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need. — Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

21. ‘safety” and ”fairness” are the preoccupation of the wounded. ”Being” and ”joy” are the unconscious realities of the free and living.’ — Mea McMahon, Observation on Christianity

22. I’m a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity–these values mean a lot to me. — Mohamed ElBaradei

23. I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech. — Teresa Heinz

24. Those who are men in God’s eyes would live and die for the promotion of equity, fairness and impartiality — Sunday Adelaja

25. Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need. — Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

26. Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent. — Nina Easton

27. What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality — Sunday Adelaja

28. I’ve got great faith in the essential fairness and decency–you may say goodness–of the human being. — Norman Vincent Peale

29. We’ve been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something–for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to. — Ronald Reagan

30. Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan

31. The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society. — Mike Lowry

32. Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan

33. Fairness means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself. — Rick Riordan

34. I asked you to marry me–and you laughed. You thought I was joking. In fairness, I was still dressed as a Cavalier. — Scott Jackson, As I Stand Here At The Altar

35. Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice, ‘ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for? — Thomas Sowell

36. To impart a moral responsibility to exercise fairness in leadership builds greater leaders of strong character. — Wayne Chirisa

37. Fairness, ‘ he said, ‘does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young. — Mitch Albom

38. We’ve been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something–for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to. — Ronald Reagan

39. I’m a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity–these values mean a lot to me. — Mohamed ElBaradei

40. I’m a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity–these values mean a lot to me. — Mohamed ElBaradei

41. In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . . — William J. Clinton

42. The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society. — Mike Lowry

43. Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity. — Rush Limbaugh

44. One measure for promoting both stability and fairness across financial market segments is a small sales tax on all financial transactions. — Noam Chomsky

45. Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I’ve never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it’s never warmed up to me. — Walter F. Mondale

46. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier. — Sheryl Sandberg

47. Nothing was fair. If you expected fairness, you would be forever disappointed. — A.C.H. Smith

48. Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth. — Rush Limbaugh

49. Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent. — Nina Easton

50. Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice, ‘ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for? — Thomas Sowell

Conclusion

Fairness is a basic human right that everyone deserves. It is important to remember that fairness is not only about how people are treated, but also about how we treat ourselves. Taking time to reflect on how we can be fairer to ourselves and to others can help us to build stronger relationships and create a more equal and just world.