Quotes about Principles

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

the laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them.

There are in the souls of wicked men those hellish principles reigning, that would presently kindle and flame out into hell-fire, if it were not for God's restraints. There is laid in the very nature of carnal men a foundation for the torments of hell: there are those corrupt principles, in reigning power in them, and in full possession of them, that are seeds of hell-fire.

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

When you lead with integrity you won't always win, but you will always do the right thing.

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegiance to God—the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God. Where are these responsible people?

Principles are not conclusions but starting points, principia. When

The Ten Commandments are there to warn all of us that, with very few exceptions, such as the immediate saving of innocent life, no cause is more important than truth-telling. The Ten Commandments are the greatest list of instructions ever devised for creating a good society. But such a society cannot be created or maintained if it is not based on truth.