River Phoenix Quotes

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

You have to be true to what you believe in.

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

When you want to know something about the character of somebody in public life, look to see if they have a passion that began long before they were in office and that they have consistently held it throughout their career.

I will not sell anything ever again that I do not believe in. I'm not willing to do a job for pure financial gain. I've done that, and it wasn't worth it.

I don't want to regret doing something that I don't believe in.

I'm a big person when it comes to doing what you believe in.

I'm always going to stand up for my beliefs and stand behind them.

People want to know that I'm a person of conviction.

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.

I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in.

Holding true to what you believe - even in a big city - is so important.

I'd never make something pointless that I don't believe in. I don't think I could do it.

You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way.

I am not that savvy, to be honest. I know what I believe in, and I try to follow people who do the same.