1,227 Quotes About Principles

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I wonder which one YOU are. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

Hard work is one of the greatest principles which I have carefully guided my life by.

In the long run, your technical skills won’t matter as much as your core principles will.

I don't recognize any authority, for human civilization has only one authority, it's the authority of human values.

Values should dictate a society, not superstitions.

But she held tight to all her principles, and the most important of these was that family came first. Pg222

If I am bending the truth because it refuses to adhere to my agenda, I must realize that in the bending the truth has forewarned me that I am not crafting an agenda at all. Rather, I am crafting the trajectory of my own demise. And even though I adamantly reject such a notion as preposterous, it is a truth that I cannot bend.

Ethics are not the things that kill my fun. Rather, they are the things that keep me from getting killed by the things that I thought were fun.