Quotes About Principles

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act.

Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.

Honour always wins, it is inevitable.

Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.

Let those who follow me continue to build with the plumb of honor, the level of truth, and the square of integrity, education, courtesy and mutuality.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.

If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

The mantle of leadership for promoting the principles of peace has fallen to America. We didn't ask for it. But it's an honor that we have it.

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Honor doesn't revise according to company just as integrity doesn't diminish due to circumstance.

Honor, " she said, "is the coin that stays in your pocket when all your silver has been spent.

Morality and honor are not to be confused. "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

I hope always to earn my living by my art without having ever deviated by even a hair's breadth from my principles... to please anyone or to sell more easily.