Quotes About Principles

Ä°dealistlerin çok belirli bir özellikleri vard?r.Neyin doÄŸru neyin yaln?? olduÄŸuna kendileri karar verirler.Ä°çlerinden gelen sesi dinlerler ve kendi deÄŸer yarg?lar? doÄŸrultusunda davran?rlar.Ä°dealizm törpülenmedikçe,kendisindn baÅŸka hiç bir otoriteye boyun eÄŸmez.Ä°dealistler her zaman serseri may?nlard?r.

Anyone who's willing to run, I'm not willing to vote for.

Rather than asking at the start how virtues relate to rules, principles, maximizing, or a final end, we will gain by looking at the way in which the acquisition and exercise of virtue can be seen to be in many ways like the acquisition and exercise of more mundane activities, such as farming, building, or playing the piano.

We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

I honestly believe that the counsel I gave Curt was mainly sound, and I don't think too much of it was holier-than-thou. I tried to give him a code to live by. He wanted not one scrap of it, he didn't agree with a single value that I held.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

Lucky Cowboy and his clean hands. By chance you had a talent somebody wanted, and now you're able to afford principles. Good for you.

We weren't running the Line, Cowboy thinks, for the Northeast. Or for the money. That was what Arkady and the thirdmen never understood, always thinking we could be bought, that we would respond to economic pressure. And that's what the Orbitals don't understand, what their crystal world models can't figure. That we'd have run the Alley for nothing. Because it was a way to be free.

The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great

la ambición desmedida reivindica que "el fin justifica los medios" y obviamente, suele apartarse de la honestidad y el juego limpio. No hay que ganar a cualquier costo, no todo vale.

Algunos defienden una aceptación "condicional", cuyo principio afirma: "Debes ganarte el amor a ti mismo haciendo cosas extraordinarias" o "Tu autoestima depende de tus logros o éxitos". Esto es tan absurdo como decir, por ejemplo, que solamente querré y aceptaré a mis hijos si son buenos estudiantes o se portan bien.

Por más querido, amable, cordial y ecuánime que sea un sujeto, si en una reunión del Opus Dei apoya públicamente las relaciones prematrimoniales, perderá de inmediato el "don de gentes", además de sus credenciales. Entonces, como los humanos somos susceptibles de ofendernos con facilidad, al menos en cuestiones de principios, la honestidad comunicativa creará incomodidad, así se utilice en pequeñas dosis.

Amar con reservas? Sí, con la firme convicción de que amarte no implica negociar mis principios.

La mente flexible mantiene opiniones, tiene creencias y principios, pero está dispuesta al cambio y en pleno contacto con la realidad.

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

So many people, if the truth were known, live their lives on two levels. The principles they fight about are often at odds with the complicated and often frustrated lives they live. This is why there is so much intensity.

would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound.

A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

How Do I Decide? A Contemporary Jewish Approach to What's Right and Wrong, Rabbi Roland B. Gittlesohn's

But we haven't come looking for safety. We're not afraid of death." And it's true. We don't have a problem with death. Our problem is life without dignity.