Quotes About Principles

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

Being your own man does not mean taking advantage of anyone else.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Men and times change-but principles-never.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

The easiest way to destroy a man's faith is to destroy his morality.

Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.

The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

Human values should predominate in men's thoughts. Human life has no meaning without these values.

The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

It is criminal negligence to leave suckers lying around to tempt honest men.