Quotes about Principles
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
- William Faulkner
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
- Edmund Burke
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
- George Bernard Shaw
Men and times change-but principles-never.
- Grover Cleveland
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
- Aristotle
The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit." (Analects 4.16)
- Confucius
It is easiest to "be all things to all men," but it is not honest. Self-respect must be sacrificed every hour in the day.
- Abraham Lincoln
All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.
- David O. McKay
A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.
- Ezra Taft Benson
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
- George Bernard Shaw
To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.
- GK Chesterton
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
- Martin Luther