Quotes about Principles

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

The Bible is not something piously stuffy and boring but a scientific procedure for successful living.

When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

It is very wrong to kill any one[.] Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

If either wealth or poverty are come by honesty, there is no shame.

There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us.

Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.