Quotes About Principles

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

The end doesn't justify the means.

You can't believe one thing and do another. What you believe and what you do are the same thing.

The Christian must recognize that there are no degrees in right or wrong

Honesty first; then courage; then brains - and all are indispensable.

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

We live by what we believe not but what we see.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.

Dietrich would never do that

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

The only thing you can never change is your values.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.