1,227 Quotes About Principles

No value system formed by man will ever manage the men who formed it.

We should be people of principles and should fight for these principles

You must learn to overcome your cowardice, and put God, His principles and the things of His kingdom, that you are called to establish, first in your life

In a culture gone increasingly rogue, it has become apparent that our actions are designed to bypass the questions whose answers would invalidate those actions. And are we naïve enough to believe that because we bypass the questions, the questions will not eventually answer themselves at our expense?

Ethics might be optional, but the consequences are not.

If the compass that I hold in my hand is driven by the agendas that I craft in my head, that compass is something more like a windmill erected in a place where the wind never stops blowing.

I think that bravery comes when the conviction to the principles that we hold dear takes our focus off the ferocity of the challenges that stand before us and instead directs our focus to the ferocity that is unleashed when a conviction is let off the leash.

Our actions must be directed, tempered and brought under the full authority of a greater calling. For if they are not, chaos, pain and a host of other less than savory things are certain to come calling.

If I possess a conviction that is not firmly grounded in an immovable sense of ethics, morals and values, what I have is a rogue agenda dressed in the finery of a conviction.