Quotes About Principles

You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.

Republicans like to accuse Democrats of trying to 'pick winners and losers.' They say we should run government 'like a business' and let 'the market' decide important matters. When it comes to the declining fortunes of dirty fuels like coal, however, they quickly they abandon these principles.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

If you look at other countries, you see they have different values: defend more, pass the ball out more, winning is holy. In England, you could say that sport itself is holy. They say, 'Look, guys, it's about more than just winning.'

Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

I'm not that interested in labels or litmus tests.

I myself am sometimes fed up with Hatta's policies. Hatta and I sometimes bug each other, but omitting Hatta from the Proclamation Text... that is the action of a coward!

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

I was thankful to him, this man who freed me. At the same time I was annoyed be cause the man who freed me doesn't have the right to speak for me. I had no intention to disavow my old principles. But to disavow Servan Schreiber made for problems.

Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.

The most important thing is to keep our basics strong in both batting and bowling.

Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.

My character has always been important to me. That was the one thing that I knew, no matter what, I had to hold that strong.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.

I try to do the right things. I was always raised that if you do the right thing and obey the law, you won't have problems. I really believe that. But that's just me; that's what I've tried to do because that's how my mother raised me.

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

I talk every day about doing the right thing.