Quotes About Principles

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

Do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will find only the eternal laws of nature. These laws are available to every person who has the faith and the courage to use them.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

We must have faith in the people of this country and faith in our principles.

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

Our vitality, and the vitality of each nation, rests on the sincerity and depth of the faith in the ideas which it announces, or pronounces.

Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith.

I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.

For many of us, our values come from our faith.

My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.

Focus on living with integrity rather than worrying about what others think of you.

I believe we should all stay true to what we believe in, but having strong beliefs doesn't have to mean having a closed mind.

I would rather struggle to find my way through a dark room guided only by the faint glow of principles I strongly believe in than to walk down a well-lit path illuminated by torches of non-integrity.

A single lifetime is enough if its lived with principles.

There is never a right way to do a wrong thing.

I live my life based on two principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth. Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.

But really justice has no coordinates, no teleology.

To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

They were presented in enigmas, clad in riddles, and taught by an wise men in the most mysterious way that could be devised, not because they contain some secret evil, or are contrary to the fundamental principles of the Law (as fools think who are only philosophers in their own eyes), but because of the incapacity of man to comprehend them at the beginning of his studies: