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Quotes About Principles

For I can raise no money by vile means.
~ William Shakespeare
I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further.
~ William Shakespeare
If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!
~ William Shatner
What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians.
~ William Wilberforce
Carefully studying the Bible will reveal to us our own ignorance of these things. It will challenge us to reject a superficial understanding of Christianity and impress on us that it is imperative not to simply be religious or moral, but also to master the Bible intellectually, integrate its principles into our lives morally, and put into action what we have learned practically.
~ William Wilberforce
If cows wouldn't eat it, I won't play on it.
~ Willie Mays
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground
~ Winston Churchill
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
~ Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
~ Winston Churchill
everything else is stripped away," the Colonel said, "that's all you will have left, your honor, the most important thing in a man's life.
~ Winston Groom
Right is more precious than peace.
~ Woodrow Wilson
The day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.
~ Woodrow Wilson
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
~ Woodrow Wilson
in fact, I'm an advocate for the straight edge. I don't live it, but I advocate it. So I don't encourage anyone to do any drugs, but on the other hand I believe in freedom.
~ Woody Harrelson
I made my people understand the crucial difference between modesty and self-control. The modest person, I told them, will do nothing blameworthy in the light of day, but a true paragon of self-control—which we all should strive to be—avoids unworthy actions even in the deepest secrecy of his private life.
~ Xenophon
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
~ Xun Zi
Le bonheur n'est pas la récompense de la vertu. Il est la vertu elle-même. 
~ Yasmina Khadra
Prad?jau suprasti, kad jei id?ja paprasta, nereiškia, jog lengvai ?gyvendinama. Gali sau murkti pritardama aukštiems principams, bet kas iš to, jei gyveni j? nesilaikydama.
~ David Michie
Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately ,experience new things, love and be loved.
~ David Nicholls
Simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Go out there with your passion and your electric typewriter and work hard at...something. Change lives through art maybe. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.
~ David Nicholls
Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible
~ David Nicholls
Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. Eat sensibly. Stuff like that.
~ David Nicholls
Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately, fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.
~ David Nicholls