Quotes About Principles

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice.

...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

The stronger you stand on your principles, the easier it is to fight. The first time, it's tough, but the second time, it's always easier. You just have to push for your rights.

N'ayant pas pu vivre selon la morale ordinaire, je tâche, du moins, d'être d'accord avec la mienne : c'est au moment où l'on rejette tous les principes qu'il convient de se munir de scrupules. J'avais pris envers vous d'imprudents engagements que devait protester la vie : je vous demande pardon, le plus humblement possible, non pas de vous quitter, mais d'être resté si longtemps.

we need to atone for our mistakes as a nation and return to the democratic principles and universal human values from which we have strayed.

Avoid transgression. How's that for advice.

Children inherent principles; they do not set them.

A life is sacred or it isn't. We can't adjust what we believe just because it causes us pain.

Una de las consecuencias de la primacía del hombre-masa en la vida de las naciones es, dice, el desinterés de la sociedad aquejada de primitivismo y de vulgaridad por los principios generales de la cultura, es decir, por las bases mismas de la civilización.

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Moralizing is reading the Bible not to learn about Jesus but only to learn principles for how to live life as a good person by following the good examples of some people and avoiding the bad examples of others. That kind of approach to the Scriptures is not Christian, because it treats the Bible like any other book with moral lessons that are utterly disconnected from faith in and salvation from Jesus.

The world had courage, faith, beauty, and love, and it had music, which, although not merely an abstraction, was equal to the greatest abstractions and principles – its power to lift, clarify, and carry the soul forever unmatched.

The classic business story is much like the classic human story. There is rise and fall; the overcoming of great odds, the upholding of principles despite the cost, questions of rivalry and succession, and even the possibility of descent into madness.

But the long tunnels of art through which I walked in Rome that day had no ragged edges, cowardly colors, or shades of pastel that didn't know what to do with themselves. The wisdom, perfection, and beauty of the colors and forms I passed were more than enough, in their collectivity, to hint at the principles which govern the hereafter, whatever that may be. Indeed, even a detail of one painting can offer solid direction in this regard if one knows how to look

Americans face a choice: you can rediscover the animating principles of the American idea--of limited government, a self-reliant citizenry, and the opportunities to exploit your talents to the fullest--or you can join most of the rest of the western world in terminal decline. To rekindle the spark of liberty once it dies is very difficult.

Once it's no longer accepted that something is wrong, all the laws in the world will avail you naught. The law functions as a formal embodiment of a moral code, not as a free-standing substitute for it.

personal animosity resonated throughout essays written as if music, the most subjective of aesthetic forms, had been elevated to the objectivity of scientific principles.

Every time I'd be thinking, "I have to keep," I'd remember, "No, you gotta give away instead." When I started going regularly to meetings, one of the principles I learned was that the way to maintain your own sobriety is to give it to another suffering alcoholic. Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.

It is not easy—perhaps not even desirable—to judge other people by a consistent standard. Conduct obnoxious, even unbearable, in one person may be readily tolerated in another; apparently indispensable principles of behaviour are in practice relaxed—not always with impunity—in the interests of those whose nature seems to demand an exceptional measure.

IT is not easy—perhaps not even desirable—to judge other people by a consistent standard. Conduct obnoxious, even unbearable, in one person may be readily tolerated in another; apparently indispensable principles of behaviour are in practice relaxed—not always with impunity—in the interests of those whose nature seems to demand an exceptional measure. That

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." —JOHN WOODEN