Quotes About Principles

everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is.

We can have ethics and we can have honor and we can have loyalty," he insisted, "and every other key virtue we learned as humans." He was roaring at me under his breath, as the British so often do it, with a veneer of silvery politeness.

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic...A thousand other things can be said about [this Savage Garden], but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.

because in a way, everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is.

We live in a world of accidents finally, in which only aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of summer rain under the street

it always annoyed him when people implied you had to have a religion in order to hold to any standards of behavior.

One way to figure out a great theory is to look at what's working in the real world and figure out what the various successes have in common. With

The art of leadership is understanding what you can't compromise on.

You have to take a stand when things aren't right.

If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime. —William Arnot

What's right isn't always popular, and whats popular isn't always right.

A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect.

The principles he stood for and the way in which he asserted them were always easier to admire than to follow

But the most important part, he says, is that you have to believe in something that is real and true. A lot of guys don't believe in anything. They will tell you what they are against, what they don't like,but they can't tell you what they are for. Because they don't actually believe in anything.

Value isn't calculated by a person's net worth or income. It's calculated by integrity and decency.

How did they manage to raise their children in righteousness? The principles become part of their lives, and when it becomes part of their life, it isn't difficult to do.

Leaders who have integrity possess one of the most respected virtues in all of life.

Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.

Life is moral responsibility.

Early in my life I had made a pact with myself. I would never eat anything that moved when I cooked it, excited the dog, or inflated upon impact with my teeth.

I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.

Good character is the single most important attribute of a successful and worthy life.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.