Quotes about Principles
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
The rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.
- Myles Munroe