Quotes About Principles

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win the final battle.

This way of life is worth defending.

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right.

We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

I made one decision in my life based on money and I swore I would never do it again.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

Early Christianity, like Roman-era philosophical traditions, laid emphasis on everyday behavior, about how to live your life.

Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

If you are going to live life on your own terms, there need to be terms, and somehow you need to live up to them.

A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.

If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.

It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

I am not someone to pity, with an unstable mind and weird pain syndromes. I am taking charge of my life. I live according to my principles. I take action and make sacrifices.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

In the two hundred years that followed the Enlightenment, more mysteries of nature were studied and explained than in the preceding two thousand years. But what you must never forget is the importance for our own lives of tolerance, reason and humanity – the three fundamental principles of the Enlightenment.

Belief's always right.. It's all right and it's also unmistakable. Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he'd die. Only isn't it improbable that your parents and guardians told it to you? If there is one won't it be part of your own flesh and spirit?

He hadn't a God, he hadn't a lover – the two usual incentives to virtue.

Money: give Mr Bast money, and don't bother about his ideals. He'll pick those up for himself.

He was more skilled than they were in the principles of human existence, but he was not so indecently familiar with the examples. A sordid village scandal—such as Stephen described as a huge joke—sprang from certain defects in human nature, with which he was theoretically acquainted. But the example!

Some people never have anything except ideals.

Truth is not mathematical concept that needs to be proved with equations. Its singleness demands an intact moral compass, with certainties about what is good and bad.

In his work The Book of Church Growth, Thom Rainer explained, "Prayer is the power behind the principles. There simply is no more important principle in church growth than prayer. The prayers of the early church unleashed the power of God to add thousands to the church. It happened then. It is happening in some churches today. And it can happen in your church."13