Quotes About Principles

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead.

A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

It is interesting that an investor who has some knowledge of the principles of equity valuations often performs worse than someone with no knowledge who decides to index his portfolio.

To say a person is morally bankrupt is to say he or she is completely devoid of any decent moral qualities.

Notice, there is a fundamental difference between providing a biological explanation of why we are inclined to accept a given moral principle and showing that we should accept it. If the ultimate explanation is biological, it is far from obvious that such principles truly obligate us to follow them.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

I think business at all costs is just wrong. I think there are certain things that you just don't do, and that acting with integrity and decency in business to me is just a given. I simply don't compromise on those things.

Tragedija svih velikih religija je da one krše i izopa?uju same principe slobode ?im postanu masovne organizacije, kojima vlada religiozna birokratija.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Nauda boj? raksturu.

Tas ir sav?di: pien?kuma apzi?a cilv?kam ir pirms divdesmit pieciem un p?c tr?sdesmit pieciem gadiem; pirmaj? reiz? aiz ide?lisma, v?l?k aiz praktiskiem apsv?rumiem. - Pa vidu ir untumu un neapr??in?mu ideju laiks.

failure no matter how imposing the finished structure proved to be. Only Adler had previously demonstrated a clear grasp of the principles of acoustical design. "Burnham was not pleased," wrote Louis Sullivan, by now Adler's

I'm going to tell you something about myself. I pay my own way as I go through the world, and I want the privilege of living my own life. I left North Mesa because I couldn't do just that. I have my own code, my own creed, and my own ideas. I try to be true to them, all of them. I hate hypocrisy. I like fair play. I want to live my own life in my own way, and I'm willing to let other people live their lives in their way.

If you ask me, this younger generation is altogether too careless about their morals.

That was morality; things that made you disgusted afterward. No, that must be immorality.

Férfit meg szabad ölni. Megátalkodni is szabad. De megsérteni nem.

A man must learn to recognize values.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.