Quotes About Principles

The key thing about life is to be true to a set of beliefs. And to be genuine.

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

I believe that in life, you have to give things your best shot, do your best. You have to focus on what needs to be done, do the right thing, not the popular thing.

We are living in a world where moral climates have no atmosphere.

LIFE IS GOVERNED BY CERTAIN PRINCIPLES AND ETHICS THAT MAKE US WHO WE ARE!

If you don't believe in virtues and principles, then you are not building your life on anything.

If you don't know what you value in life, then you won't be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.

Honesty is doing what you know or believe is right. Integrity is doing what is right and truthful.

Life and history have repeatedly taught us that values and virtues are far much stronger than the physical wealth we often see. For material wealth emanates from values and virtues.

To Extend The Kingdom Principles Is Living a Life Of Vision

Living a life changing kingdom principles is a life that is worth living

If you need someone to explain morality to you, then you likely have little of it to draw from.

Virtue ethicists, taking their cue from Aristotle, define moral behavior as behavior that expresses virtues, which are principles that lead to excellence in human life. Some virtues derive from others, but there's no single principle from which all virtues unfold.

GW: 'Vigilant citizens are required to keep parties focused on serving the people rather than the unprincipled pursuit of power that divides in order to conquer

Nothing which is worth while is easy, nor in my experience is the actual doing of it particularly pleasant. The pleasure arises from completion and from the knowledge that one has done the right thing and has stood by one's convictions.

From the purest principles of reason, as well as from the fountain of revealed truth, he demonstrates that the chief and ultimate end of the Supreme Being, in the works of creation and providence, was the manifestation of his own glory in the highest happiness of his creatures.

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like.

The highest, the transcendent glory of the American Revolution was this -- it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the precepts of Christianity.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

If the fundamental principles in the Declaration of Independence, as self-evident truths, are real truths, the existence of slavery, in any form, is a wrong.