Quotes about Principles
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
- Stephen Covey
We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'
- Desmond Tutu
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."
- George Washington
Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
- Winston Churchill
I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.
- James Faust
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.
- Thomas Jefferson
The true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.
- Thomas Paine
The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.
- Samuel Johnson
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity
- John Adams
I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.
- Frederick Douglass
On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States.
- James Madison
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
- John Wooden