Quotes About Principle

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.

Honor is a harder master than the law.

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

To be fired for my faith would be a greater honor than to be fired because we didn't win enough games.

There's not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.

When honor and truth are at odds, let truth prevail.

If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance.

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor...

Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same.

I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.

Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust.

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!

Benny pushed a slow breath through his teeth. "Is it so terrible to believe in something?

Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work and animates a man to do his utmost.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.