Quotes About Principles

One must, so long as there is any life left, back up the character of one's life.

Living in a way that reflects one's values is not just about what you do, it is also about how you do things.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

The high cost of low living.

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

What is important is to have values in life. Whats important is how you are, not how you look.

It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity.

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.

You have to maintain integrity at all times during your life.

What you have with Barack Obama is a lack of character.

Mitt Romney

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

We were guided by what we had learned from the charitable giving we had done over several decades. One principle was to make the gift transformative, with an impact well beyond what you'd expect from the monetary amount. We also wanted to fund projects that wouldn't happen without our support. These conditions were met.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.

Most people who haven't been trained in physics probably think of what physicists do as a question of incredibly complicated calculations, but that's not really the essence of it. The essence of it is that physics is about concepts, wanting to understand the concepts, the principles by which the world works.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.