Quotes About Principles

There may be no God, but there's decency and - and there's truth and trying to stay there, I mean to stay in it, in its sort of light, and trying to do a good thing and to hold onto what you know to be a good thing even if it seems stupid when you come to do it.

Same rules apply.

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!

Never let your sense of morals keep you from doing what is right.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.

La verdad científica está por encima de la lealtad y la deslealtad.

Don't be so blinded by your morals you fail to do what's right.

Nothing strong can be built on a foundation of lies and omissions.

I took the opportunity to tell her about you, a stupendous young man, sensible and of solid principles, handsome, hardworking, and intelligent. Etelvina, who was serving the pie, froze with the knife in the air and asked me who I was talking about.

I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just, and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need.

We need bold leadership to bring America back to its first principles of diversity inclusion and opportunity for everyone in every ZIP Code, and music is that vehicle to summon our better angels. Music is that vehicle and always has been a vehicle to challenge us to build a better America.

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

I love an opposition that has convictions.

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more "manhood" to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.