Quotes about Principles

Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

How interesting that the Democrat, Martin Luther King, is identified with a principle that the Republican, Frederick Douglass, expressed even more eloquently so much earlier. How bizarre that the Democrats are presumed to be the party of civil rights when the very content of civil rights was formulated and developed by the GOP.

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

Work on your character and a good life will come to you.

What people believe is more important than how they look, what their skills are, or their degree of passion.

what miserable creatures great men are when they have no high principles within them and no faith in the reality of a God above them.

Content with their hardly-won triumphs, that worthy body of men seemed to rest upon their oars. In the plenary enjoyment of their rights of conscience, they forgot the great vital principles of their forefathers, and their own duties and responsibilities.

A man must make the Bible his rule of conduct. He must make its leading principles the compass by which he steers his course through life. By the letter or spirit of the Bible he must test every difficult point and question. "To the law and to the testimony! What saith the Scripture?" He ought to care nothing for what other people may think right. He ought not to set his watch by the clock of his neighbour, but by the sun-dial of the Word.