Quotes About Principle

As Thomas Jefferson proclaimed, "In matters of fashion, swim with the current. In matters of conscience, stand like a rock.

Learn to be flexible. Thomas Jefferson once said, "In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current.

William James said, "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

so visibly shaken by some recent loss of principle that it would have been noticed by a stranger across the aisle

It was not fair and therefore unworthy of my respect. It was as simple as that.

Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.

Doing the right thing and believing in yourself will always gratify some people and astonish the rest.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody is looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe and to heck with everybody.

The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choose right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and truth over popularity.

I have two rules:First, I'm never wrong.Second, if I'm wrong...back to the first rule."L Lawliet

I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have.

Integrity is your destiny-it is the light that guides your way.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.