Quotes about Principles
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
Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.
— Harry S. Truman
A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.
— Henry David Thoreau
When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
— Henry David Thoreau
No great question will ever be settled in dollars and cents. Great questions must be settled on moral grounds and the tests of what makes free men.
— Herbert Hoover
I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with good ethics than bad.
— Charlie Munger
I don't do anything for the money.
— Ricky Gervais
Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.
— Joyce Meyer
We cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with our beliefs.
— John Maxwell
Life without decency is unbearable.
— Albert Nobbs