Quotes About Principle

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion.

The principle of intervention, like that of healers, is first do no harm (primum non nocere); even more, we will argue, those who don't take risks should never be involved in making decisions.

If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing.

My principle activity is to tease those who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in

Compromising is condoning. The only modern dictum I follow is one by George Santayana: A man is morally free when Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.

Sticking up for truth when it is unpopular is far more of a virtue, because it costs you something—your reputation.

Este mult mai dificil s? pierzi într-un joc pe care l-ai pus la punct tu însuÈ›i.

establishing the principle that you need to eat what you feed others.

My motto is "my principal activity is to tease those who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously.

Universal behavior is great on paper, disastrous in practice.

Compromising is condoning. The only modern dictum I follow is one by George Santayana: A man is morally free when … he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity. This is not just an aim but an obligation.

will side in favor of Rav Safra's action in the debate.

A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to.

When you believe in something, stand up for it, even if everyone is sitting.

In attempting to counterfeit a self-esteem he does not possess, he makes his perception of reality conditional; he establishes, as a principle of his mind's functioning, that certain considerations supersede reality, facts, and truth in their importance to him.

Self-efficacy is not the certainty that we will be able to master any and every challenge that life presents. It is the conviction that we are capable in principle of learning what we need to learn and that we are committed to doing our rational and conscientious best to master the tasks and challenges entailed by our values.

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

The sanctity of the law . . . and the wisdom to know when it must be broken.

He (Connor) will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do. - Risa

s]ometimes doing the right thing means doing the wrong thing first.

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.

He will only do the wrong thing when it's the right thing to do.

Have you given any thought to my offer?" Roberta asks her. "I don't need to. I already gave you my answer." "It's very noble to stand on principle and refuse an unwound spine," Roberta says. "It does, however, represent a wrongful mind-set that is neither productive nor adaptive. It's backward, actually, and it makes you part of the problem.