Quotes About Principled

I always stand behind the things that I do. I don't listen to those who downplay things nor do I pay attention to those who grovel at our feet and tell us that we're the greatest. For me, that is just noise.

I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?

I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.

Aku bangga menjadi seorang liberal, Tuan, liberal konsekwen. Memang orang lain menamainya liberal keterlaluan. Bukan hanya tidak suka ditindas, tidak suka menindas, lebih dari itu: tidak suka adanya penindasan ....

Today we need a special kind of courage. Not the kind needed in battle, but a kind which makes us stand up for everything that we know is right, everything that is true and honest. We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics, so that we can show the world that we are not afraid of the future.

I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.

I wasn't going to say things just to get votes.

I'm very comfortable in my skin. Yet, I won't do anything that's indecent, cheap or vulgar.

I had a clear vision: if I take up an assignment, I'll do full justice to it; otherwise I'll walk away.

My biggest thing is that I never want to sell out. Or be a sellout.

I'm not as big of a fan of being loud, brash and boisterous just for the sake of selling a fight.

I've never attempted or even tried or will ever throw anyone under the bus. That's just not me. I don't do that.

I'm the type of person, you know, I don't throw nobody under the bus for nothing.

I'm a businessman, a company man, but I'm no 'yes' man.

I don't suck up to anyone or do any of that. I point-blank refuse. I just hate it.

Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.

I'm not going to be one of those guys who changes, and all of a sudden I'm shaking hands and kissing babies.

John) Adams acknowledged that he had made himself obnoxious to many of his colleagues, who regarded him as a one-man bonfire of the vanities. This never troubled Adams, who in his more contrarian moods claimed that his unpopularity provided clinching evidence that his position was principled, because it was obvious that he was not courting popular opinion. His alienation, therefore, was a measure of his integrity.

I'd rather be truth-telling and I hope always to be without hypocrisy.

Una mujer que no concede atenuantes ni rebajas

Never, never, never, never, never give in—except to dictates of honor and good sense.

Though Lincoln did not drink, smoke tobacco, use profane language, or engage in games of chance, he never condescended to those who did. On the contrary, when he had addressed the Springfield Temperance Society at the height of the temperance crusade, he had insisted that "such of us as have never fallen victims, have been spared more from the absence of appetite, than from any mental or moral superiority over those who have.

For Lincoln, pragmatic, transactional strategies provided the nuts and bolts of principled, transformational leadership.

As the Head of a woman's college she must, thought Harriet, have had a distasteful task; for she looked as though the word 'compromise' had been omitted from her vocabulary; and all statesmanship is compromise.