Quotes About Principle

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

God honors you when you take a stand for what is right.

When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle.

I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote.

Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

I have found that fate is as liquid and elusive a word as love. Plato thought they were the same ... Novalis wrote that fate and soul are two names for the same principle.

My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane.

Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

Don't ever do anything on principle alone. If you haven't got a better reason for doing something other than the principle of the thing, then don't do it.

Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which states that the electron is a particle but a particle that can be described in terms of waves.

I may not agree with what you say, but I shall defend to the death your right to be a complete asshole.

Sooner or later, every president faces decisions in which the right choice is bad politics, at least in the short term. If the stakes are high, you have to do what you think is right and hope the political tide will turn. It's the job you promised to do.

The point is, a leader does what he thinks is right, not what he thinks the popular thing is.

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I wonder which one YOU are. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!

The Code of the West Say what you want about me, but leave the horse I rode in on out of it.

to think well; this is the principle of morality.

Let us then strive to think well; that is basic principle of morality. (54)

Doing what's right isn't always popular and doing what's popular isn't always right.

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

As Lincoln himself said, "Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.