Quotes About Principles

Priorities shift every day; values once defined, stay same.

Your values are the soul of your leadership, and they drive your behavior.

What you believe identifies who you are.

Thomas Macauley said, "The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he would never be found out." Life is like a vise; at times it will squeeze us. At those moments of pressure, whatever is inside will be found out. We cannot give what we do not have. Image promises much but produces little. Integrity never disappoints.

It has been said that you don't really know people until you have observed them when they interact with a child, when the car has a flat tire, when the boss is away, and when they think no one will ever know. But people with integrity never have to worry about that. No matter where they are, who they are with, or what kind of situation they find themselves in, they are consistent and live by their principles.

V. Gilbert Beers says, "A person of integrity is one who has established a system of values against which all of life is judged." Integrity is not what we do so much as who we are. And who we are, in turn, determines what we do. Our

Good character, with honesty and integrity at its core, is essential to success in any area of life. Without it, a person is building on shifting sand.

two things are responsible for making leadership rise? The first is competence. No one wants to follow an incompetent leader. The second is values. Values are principles that guide your decisions and behaviors.

Developing and maintaining integrity require constant attention. John Weston, chairman and CEO of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., says, "I`ve always tried to live with the following simple rule: Don`t do what you wouldn`t feel comfortable reading about in the newspapers the next day." That`s a good standard all of us should keep.

There's no such thing as business ethics—there's only ethics.

La integridad no es tanto lo que hacemos sino lo que somos. Y lo que somos, a su vez, determina lo que hacemos.

Billy Graham said, "Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. We must constantly strive to keep our integrity intact.

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

DETERMINE TO DO THE RIGHT THING, EVEN WHEN IT HURTS.

La honestidad no es algo que haces; la honestidad es quién eres».

The respect that leadership must have requires that one's ethics be without question. A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, he stays well clear of the 'gray areas.

Haz lo correcto día tras día. No existen atajos para las cosas que valen la pena.

It seemed as though he had a fundamental belief that the merit of his argument depended on the strength of his feelings about the matter, and since he always felt uncontrollably passionate about everything, then clearly he was always right. This irrational claptrap, coming as it did from a swarthy, excitable, plump Celtic demi-dwarf, struck me not just as thoroughly impertinent but also as a noisy and ignorant attempt to undermine the most basic principles of the Enlightenment.

Principles are important in life, but when they begin to boost ones ego, then they turn into a burden for relationships.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue, and no greater loss than to forget it.

You must value four things in your life,your family, your self respect, dignity and your inner voice.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.