Quotes About Principle

Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

To do the easy thing is simple. To do the right thing is difficult.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life

Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that".

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that. But perhaps for the right to have our opinions and to change them.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without contradiction.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredients in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships..

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It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.

One universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

The key principle, however, is this: power must be exercised wholly for the benefit of others and not for the benefit of the leader. Christian leadership, modelled on Jesus' leadership, is self-giving, not self- serving.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Though he had determined upon this in the first moment of joyful enthusiasm, yet the delay of four-and-twenty hours had made a material change in his feelings; his most virtuous resolves were always rather the effect of sudden impulse than of steady principle.