Principles Quotes

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

If the facts change, I’ll change my opinion. What do you do, Sir?

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

At times we used questionable means to achieve our noble ends.

Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others.

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Integrity is everything to me.

It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution.

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.

When principles fail, men have only one way to save them and to preserve their faith, which is to die for them.

Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management."

The obstinate Man does not hold Opinions; they hold him.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.