Quotes About Principles

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

You must learn not what people round you consider good or bad, but to act in life as your conscience bids you. An untrammelled conscience will always know more than all the books and teachers put together.

Still, Amelia had not allowed herself to be certain until dessert, when she'd asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he'd replied Principles of Accounting, Part II.

Mine Sadie. This life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.

life is filled with inescapable moral compromises. We should do what we can to avoid the easy ones.

The idea of Solution was that if you won the game on points, you lost it morally.

when she'd asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he'd replied Principles of Accounting, Part II. Gently

she'd asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he'd replied Principles of Accounting, Part II.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

Jefferson belonged to that large class if southerners--including the best of them, nen like Washington and Madison--who knew that slavery was evil, but felt they could not cut back in the evil without cutting the ground out from under them. They knew, as well, that they would lose their influence over other southerners if they went against the system off which they lived.

For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

From many things that Adams and his contemporaries wrote, it is clear that they did not use the word "religion" to exclude Christian ideas or principles as some do today. The founders did not make institutional religion a part of the government, but they never thought of excluding Christian principles.

If I do the right thing, the money will be there.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." —Arnold H. Glasow

but if someone's character has no foundation, there's nothing to build on.

The most precious treasure is virtue.

Virtue is acting naturally, doing the right thing without thinking "I'm doing the right thing!" Righteousness is acting unnaturally, following rigid rules or commandments that all too often make us a worse, rather than a better, person.

Too many people around here, they've lost themselves inside a lifetime of Dominion theology. They may not know the term, but they've got the principles down cold. Go back some generations, our ancestors had it right. They saw themselves as stewards of the earth. Now it's all about how God gave them dominion over everything, so they've got every right to do whatever they want with it.

I have no relish for puritans either in religion or politics, who are pushing for principles to an extreme, and overturning everything that stands in the way of their own zealous career…. I always distrust the soundness of political councils that are accompanied by acrimonious and disparaging attacks upon any great class of our fellow citizens.

I have the courage of my convictions.

Staying unSpun really boils down to following a few principles... When confronted with a claim, keep an open mind, ask questions, cross-check, look for the best information, and then weigh the evidence.

Because if He were a King in name only, I would rather go back to the chocolate factory. I would remain a Christian, but I would know that my religion was only a set of principles, excellent and to be followed, but hardly demanding devotion. Suppose on the other hand that I were to discover God to be a Person, in the sense that He communicated and cared and loved and led. That was something quite different. That was the kind of King I would follow into any battle.