Quotes About Principles

A civilization must be judged by its standards not by its expenditure.

Intent matters. Integrity matters. Courage matters. If you have the three, nothing else matters

Happiness is.. Starting your study with 3 principles of accounting, then your profession, with 3 principles of life.. CHALLENGE it, ACHIEVE it, Loop it. Happy to be a CA, Happy CA day.

Sell your materials but save your morals.

In business 'professionalism' is not a tactic but a moral value.

To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense.

Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong.

Don't just do what is required, do what is respected.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone.

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.

You know, kid, ethics isn't about choosing between right and wrong; it's about choosing between grey and grey. It's about choosing between two equally desirable but mutually exclusive courses of action. Freedom or security? Courage or comfort? Self-examination or blissful happiness? Column A or Column B?

Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

In everyone's life there are important moments where you're going to have to fight for something. Just make sure you haven't used your capital over something that wasn't worth fighting over to begin with - Nina Totenberg

He writes of the Garman ethics that "there is a standard of righteousness that might does not make right, that the end does not justify the means, and that expediency as a working principle is bound to fail. The only hope of perfecting human relationships is in accordance with the law of service under which men are not so solicitous about what they shall get as they are about what they shall give.

We want trumpets that sound like thunder, and men to act as though they were going to war with those corrupt and degrading principles that rob one of all rights, merely because he is ignorant, and of a little different color. Let us have principles that will give every one his due; and then shall wars cease, and the weary find rest.

Musonius Rufus tells us that if we live in accordance with Stoic principles, "a cheerful disposition and secure joy" will automatically follow.

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.