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Quotes About Principles

Courage is being true to yourself, true to a sense of integrity.
~ Cornel West
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
~ Ronald Reagan
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
My parents were always clear with my brothers and I when we were growing up that you have to have the courage of your convictions and that when you commit to something you must fully commit.
~ David Pocock
Integrity means having the courage to do what is right, and what is aligned with your values, no matter the situation.
~ Douglas Conant
Integrity is the core of our character.
~ L. Lionel Kendrick
All that matter is honesty, integrity, and courage to face your conviction.
~ Unknown
Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.
~ Brian Tracy
Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.
~ Ovid
Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.
~ Brian Tracy
Just because something 'is' doesn't mean that it should be.
~ Joseph Curiale
Too few have the courage of my convictions.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
It takes no courage to say or do what's popular.
~ Rick Warren
It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.
~ Jean Anouilh
Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer.
~ Robert Kennedy
Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.
~ Octavia Butler
I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.
~ Ricky Skaggs
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
~ Immanuel Kant
The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.
~ Alexander Hamilton
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.
~ Epictetus
But what he no longer had was a conscience he could live with.
~ Philip Roth
I don't believe lies are something to stand on. I believe lies are something to build on.
~ Philip Roth
in John Adams' words, "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.
~ Philip Yancey