Quotes About Principles

If you have no philosophical ground for your work, you have no place to stand from which to make decisions. Ethical ones, moral ones.

If you have no philosophical ground for your work, you have no place to stand from which to make decisions. Ethical ones, moral ones. You won't know the boundaries of your duty, and what you owe your gods—assuming you have any—the world, and your fellow men and women.

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men.

There is much in life that is complicated and beyond our understanding, but the basic principles of human liberty are not so complicated, and if we hold to them, we will find a way to correct our mistakes and set a true course

Being accused of having double standards is preferable to being convicted—due to our own refusal to act—of honoring no standards at all.

This is why the apply some principles approach to marriage improvement doesn't work. So long as we choose to turn a blind eye to how we are fallen as men or women, and to the unique style of relating that we have forged out of our sin and brokenness, we will continue to do damage to our marriages.

The definition of integrity is this: Being what I say I am by acting in accordance with my words.

You cannot compromise principles to achieve unity

You can't get around what's right, though, he said. When we stop loving them, that's when they win.

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

In modern times, in my opinion, either everything is a moral question or there are no more moral questions. Nowadays, there are no compromises or there are only compromises. Never influenced, I keep my vigil. There is no letting up.

But in her first days with us, Susie was a bear on the rape issue—and on a lot of other issues, too.

What but faith in the goodness and uniqueness of its essential principles could unite and sustain a country as diverse as America? What but faith could have enabled the country to survive the trials of the Revolution, the chaos and grief of a civil war—

You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it's the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.

A man should never be judged by his skill, talent, colour, financial or political status, facial beauty and level of education but by the quality of his character.

... the best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl.

All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.

Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.