Quotes About Principles

Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.

I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that is immoral, even if it is technically legal.

I am not an economist... I am not a business technician. I am a revolutionary, and I do what is right for an economic revolutionary.

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'

I have personally seen Ted Cruz stand up and fight on the issues that matter the most to conservatives, even when it wasn't popular in Congress.

Teenagers want to be able to fight for what's right - but finding out what's right is now 90 percent of the battle.

My dad actually was a wonderful person, and also happened to be a hunter and fisherman. And my brothers and I never would eat meat our whole lives. We just wouldn't eat it. We would refuse it. Of course, in that day and age you kind of got forced to eat it. But the minute we all became teenagers, we foreswore it.

I'm telling you, I don't like cheaters.

You can save a lot of money when you have responsible and bold policies that are in line with our principles, and we are telling the truth to Canadians.

Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles and not public pressures of other sort. That's the meaning of neutrality.

The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?

The Truth At Any Cost Lowers All Other Costs

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.

She was no pushover. That was for sure. She was strong, opinionated, easy to underestimate and misunderstand. She had her own ideas about duty and honor and she kept to her principles even with a gun at her back.

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

But he knew no other way; it was part of a short but inflexible personal code of ethics that he had carried with him all his adult life: do the job and do it well.

Aun así, él no sabía hacer las cosas de otra manera; eso formaba parte de un código ético personal, breve pero inflexible, que lo había acompañado a lo largo de toda su vida adulta y que podía resumirse en una frase: «Haz el trabajo y hazlo bien.»

A Foundational system serves not so much to prop up the house of mathematics as to clarify the principles and methods by which the house was built in the first place.

A nations moral life is, of course, the foundation of its culture.