Quotes About Principles

Wealth will always find their way out of societies where truth and honesty are not established into the societies where there are principles of honesty and truth.

Poverty of character is not a personality flaw, its is the bankruptcy of morals

Timeless principles never age, and truth is as young as the day it was spoken into existence.

When the economy of a country is based fundamentally on the principles of truth and honesty, that nation experiences economic stability.

Many people would fight against the idea that they are corrupt. While in the real sense, they are corrupt because they don't live by the principles of honesty and truth.

True development only comes when the principles of truth and honesty have been successfully transmitted into the daily and everyday lifestyle of the people.

If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty.

Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation.

For an educated person, intelligence is important but character is more important.

I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.

If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.

Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

I don't fight my friends... I don't care how much money you put in front of me, I don't care if you put millions and millions of dollars and you say whatever you want.

Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.

never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you

You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and heart.

I do not hold with those who think it is all right to do whatever you want so long as it doesn't hurt anyone. Who's to be the judge of that?

I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.

I believe recovery is a synonym for what the Bible calls "discipleship." That's why I believe the 12 Steps are for everyone. We all have our addictions --or what some people call "our favorite sins"-- that we continue to struggle with. That means we can all benefit from living out the principles of the 12 Steps.

The lesson was clear: they should have voted for Clay even if he was a slave owner. That would not have been evil, because a tree was known by the fruit it bore. "If the fruit of electing Mr. Clay would have been to prevent the extension of slavery, could the act of electing have been evil?

Darwin read Lyell's magnum opus, The Principles of Geology, on the voyage of the Beagle and employed its principles of reasoning in On the Origin of Species. The subtitle of Lyell's Principles

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.