Quotes About Principles

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.

Love and the search for truth are unifying principles.

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them.

"Adjust to changing times but sticking to unchanging principles" - committing me and all Americans to real ideals of justice and truth, no matter what difficulties faced us.

I've always told the truth. I've often been wrong - but I've never knowingly lied. Not in public life. Because I don't see the need to.

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

I have always defended my convictions and what I believed to be the truth.

Truth, Peace and Non-violence form the central tenets of the 'Idea of India'!

Truth, though, is nothing in the face of self-falsehood, and principles are of no value if the idealist cannot live up to his own standards.

By making choices consistent with eternal truth you will develop righteous character.

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

Stand in your own truth and you will command respect.

What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.

The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.

Far from being antecedent principles that animate the process, law, language, truth are but abstract names for its results.