Quotes About Principles

Never compromise your values, and never apologize for how you feel.

It takes a great of courage to live according to your principles and values that are behind them, and to tolerate the pain, the isolation, and the anxiety of being different from other people, of being creative, of living a unique existence; the courage to face death with equanimity. To stand by one's beliefs is part of that, too. It takes courage to stand behind one's beliefs when they run counter to a society or a group or pressures from other people.

Remove yourself from any situation that requires you to give up any one of these three things: 1) Who you are. 2) What you stand for. 3) The goals you aspire to achieve.

Unfortunately my parents had recourse to principles entirely different from those which I suggested they should adopt

I had always believed that right was like north to my father: a thing as real as sunlight, a place on the map, the arrow on a compass. It was the unalterable facts of duty, love, and conscience. But our world had gone so far north that the compass could make no sense of it, could only spin hopelessly in it binnacle. North had melted right off the map.

How far can you compromise without seriously violating your identity

Serious doubting as a theological method re-contextualises Liberation Theology by questioning those very hermeneutical principles which led liberationists to be indifferent to the reality of lemon vendors in the first place. Amongst

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Quaedam iura non scripta, sed omnibus scriptis certiora sunt.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

We train for war and fight to win. I stand ready to bring the full spectrum of combat power to bear in order to achieve my mission and the goals established by my country. The execution of my duties will be swift and violent when required, yet guided by the very principles I serve to defend.

But not a flag worshipper. He cared about the principles, not the symbol." "That's what patriotism means. The others are just fetishists.

May the Architect be high-minded; not arrogant, but faithful; Just, and easy to deal with, without avarice; Not let his mind be occupied in receiving gifts, But let him preserve his good name with dignity...

Noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble.

Wherever you're working is where you take a stand. You don't have to go looking for new places, other issues, compelling causes.

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing.

Consensus: "The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: 'I stand for consensus?