Fortunate circumstances do not equate to high principles.

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Fortune may crowd a man's life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he…

— Frederick Douglass

We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

— Vernor Vinge

The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but puts into practice, the high principles of the Papacy.

— Avro Manhattan

If I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on me by…

— John Stuart Mill

“I refer to them as miracles-although some may call them fortunate circumstances-because I believe there are no accidents or surprises with God.”

— Don Piper with Cecil Murphey

Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.

— Horace

Our country is fortunate to have Bill Barr, a man of integrity who has served two U.S. Presidents, as our Attorney General.

— Mike Braun

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

— Julius Evola

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

— William Hazlitt

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

— Umberto Eco

It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to…

— Andrew Jackson

I'm a guy of strong principles and I think people respect that.

— Eoin Morgan

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

— Ellen Glasgow

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

— Lucretia Mott