Quotes About Principles

Character is more important than any other leadership trait.

I'm not ashamed of the things I believe and why I believe them.

This nation has gotten away from the principles of the founding fathers under the failed leadership of Barack Obama. This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.

In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.

We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: "I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Here, I think, lies the misfortune of philosophy: always we encounter on our travels some exceptional freak to which the philosophical rules are found to be non-applicable. Which are right – the freaks or the philosophical principles?

But, while we do so, we declare that it is our belief that the Democratic party is now recognized as that only existing national party in the United States—the only constitutional party—the only party which by its present principles is competent to govern these United States, whose principles are based upon the Constitution—the only party with a platform coextensive with this great Union—this is the great Democratic party.

Those of the South had no material cause of complaint; but, actuated by sympathy for their Northern brethren, and a devotion to the principles of civil liberty and community independence, which they had inherited from their Anglo-Saxon ancestry, and which were set forth in the Declaration of Independence, they made common cause with their neighbors, and may, at least, claim to have done their full share in the war that ensued.

On the other hand, the party originally known as Republican, and afterward as Democratic, can scarcely claim to have been distinctively or exclusively such in the primary sense of these terms, inasmuch as no party has ever avowed opposition to the general principles of government by the people. The fundamental idea of the Democratic party was that of the sovereignty of the States and the federal, or confederate, character of the Union.