Quotes About Principles

I'm not interested in money.

I'm not interested in business for business's sake.

It's cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values.

Compromises lead you nowhere. You can't be happy doing something you don't believe in.

Flopping shouldn't get you nowhere.

Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

When Barack Obama is right, then I'll support him. When he is wrong, I'll fight him.

I never did films for the sake of money alone or for any favour or obligation.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

The Bible is not something piously stuffy and boring but a scientific procedure for successful living.

Therefore the fiesta is not only an excess, a ritual squandering of the goods painfully accumulated during the rest of the year; it is also a revolt, a sudden immersion in the formless, in pure being. By means of the fiesta society frees itself from the norms it has established. It ridicules its gods, its principles, and its laws: it denies its own self.

Der Triumph der Prinzipien über Instinkte

experience is comparable to fashion; an action that proved successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow. Only principles endure

Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Oliver Goldsmith paraphrased

Americans don't fight for gold or oil or colonial conquest; we fight for an idea—liberty.

Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for

When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it`s about happiness.` `But if you don`t have any principles, and if you don`t have faith, you can`t be happy at all,` said Kadife. `That`s true. But in a brutal country like ours, where human life is cheap, it`s stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.` `Actually, it`s the other way round. In a poor country, people`s sole consolation comes from their beliefs.

A miniaturist creates his art by heeding his conscience and by obeying the principles in which he believes, fearing nothing. he pays no attention to what his enemies, the zealots and those who envy him have to say.

Život se ne živi zbog na?ela, nego zato da bismo bili sretni.

I'm saying this to you as someone who's spent years as a political exile. Listen to me: Life's not about principles, it's about happiness.

But if you don't have any principles, and if you don't have faith, you can't be happy at all," said Kadife. "That's true. But in a brutal country like ours where human life is cheap, it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs, high ideals—only people living in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

Real happiness cannot be bribed by anything sordid or low.