Quotes About Principle

I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal.

The most important thing about my life is this integrity, and you can't lie to yourself.

The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

The principle of not negotiating with terrorists is the only thing we can hold on to.

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.

I am always prepared to do the right thing regardless of what other people think.

Doing the right thing is a decision, which in many cases means you stand alone.

There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.

In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'

Sometimes you have to stand up for what's right, and sometimes that may be ruffling feathers and may be frowned upon by everyone else, but at the end of the day in your heart, knowing you're on the right side of history and knowing that you did the right thing, good or bad, you have to live with that.

I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.

I just try to live my life every day by doing the right thing.

While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the right thing to do?

What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing.

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it's an organizing principle that helps us write a story that has some weight; it's not something that all readers have to care about.

They stood up for truth and justice not out of an expectation of achievable victory in their lifetimes, but because it was the right thing to do.

If there is no sacred order, then the original promise of the serpent in the Garden of Eden—"[Y]e shall be as gods"—is the foundational principle of the new culture.

Here is the platform and principle of the whole structure of our knowledge. <> He who could push me into contradicting the senses would have me by the throat; he could not push me further back. The senses are the beginning and the end of human knowledge:

Pressure can take many forms: a bribe, a threat, a manipulative appeal to trust, or a simple refusal to budge. In all these cases, the principled response is the same: invite them to state their reasoning, suggest objective criteria you think apply, and refuse to budge except on this basis. Never yield to pressure, only to principle.

Reason and be open to reason; yield to principle, not pressure.

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)