1,227 Quotes About Principles

There, now my principles are in confusion and I hate it.

It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification.

A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn from him.

I am bound to say he never gave away any large sums of money to anybody. He is far too high-principled for that!

If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future.

Prekršim li jedno jedino načelo koje sam sebi zadao, kad-tad bit ću prisiljen prekršiti još mnogo drugih. Da sam tako postupio, vjerojatno ne bih bio u stanju završiti utrku.

His father used to tell him that you can't eat principles. And no, you couldn't. But you could live by them.

Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held.

Religious extremism is fatal to those who don't conform to its values, or remold or submit themselves to its 'principles'. It craves control and power - and power is the one tool that enables it to wreak its characteristic havoc, destruction and cruelty upon those it chooses to label as scapegoats. Giving in to extremists enables them and empowers them - and worse, it encourages them.