Quotes About Principles

I believe the best test of our integrity and honesty is when we personally enforce in our own lives that which ultimately cannot be enforced.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

He that loseth his honesty hath nothing else to lose.

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

People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty.

No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.'

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Honesty defines self respect.

The entire perks that I need are to let me do my job with full honesty to my conscience.

Honesty is the best insurance policy.

He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing.

The law of honor: Go along only on the paths of honor. Fight, and never be a coward. Leave the path of infamy to others. Better to fall in an honorable fight than win by infamy.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

I don't bang for the color or the land. I bang for the principles and for the honor. I'm bangin' for the Westside- this is in my heart, this is how I feel.

Honor is better than honors.

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.