Quotes About Principles

Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas! Sir William Osler.

The Law is the true embodimentOf everything that's excellent.It has no kind of fault or flaw,And I, my Lords, embody the Law.

You have enemies? Good! That means you've stood up for something sometime in your life.

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

You love people, not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values; their virtues.

I believe there are certain things that cannot be bought -- loyalty, friendship, health, love and an American League pennant.

What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.

He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries. A singular nation, you know.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have the right to do and what is the right thing to do." Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1958–1981.

Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naive and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles.

Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naïve and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles. To see Uncle Sam going back on his word, revoking people's private lives, revoking their freedom…

thing about you is your belief system.

Nothing's wrong with going to jail for something you believe in. Remember, jail was made for people. Not horses.

Here at Shenanigans Neighborhood Bar and Grill, we don't put up with actual shenanigans.

I have seen too many men willing to fight to the death over a spilled cup of wine to think dying for a cause makes that cause just.

This is a new country, as you say. Why shouldn't it have new laws, new customs? And why should not those customs extend to the home itself. To—to love!

remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.

Refusal to stand up for what you believe in weakens individual morality and ethics as well as those of the culture.

Despite the economic gains of individual feminist women, many women who have amassed wealth or accepted the contribution of wealthy males, who are our allies in struggle, we have created no schools founded on feminist principles for girls and boys, for women and men.