Quotes About Principles

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

In carrying out every aspect of our work, CIA officers are guided by a professional ethos that is the sum of our abiding principles, core values, and highest aspirations. These include service, integrity, excellence, courage, teamwork, and stewardship. Sacrifice, too, is an inescapable part of our mission.

When knowledge is cut off from traditional values, it becomes disastrous.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.

We had a simple choice: Either betray our values or keep our values and leave Russia to try to do something new.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.

Interests change and diverge; values do not.

The principles and form of government that form the basis of democracy are compatible with Islamic values.

As exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness. To their principles. To what is right and wrong. To American values.

Discipline gives standards and values to live by, a basis for morality.

People say values are expensive, but I say they create economic value.

I believe very strongly that in this world you have to have values and you have to stand up for your interests and if you don't do those things you're not going to get anywhere.

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important.

When you are led by values, it doesn't cost your business, it helps your business.

We have a set of core values. Honesty, respect.

When you don't know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.

Standing for something isn't just about writing it down. It's about believing it and living it.

Marxism claims, above all, to be a 'scientific' philosophy, one which applies the principles of science to politics and society.