We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

The general principle is that the victors don't look at themselves or concede anything. The defeated typically have to, except when it's beneficial to…

— Noam Chomsky

“Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. They’re fundamental.”

— Stephen R. Covey

I stick to my principles.

— Rory MacDonald

“Reality came first, and the principles and logic followed.”

— Haruki Murakami

The principles and passions of men are always the same and lead to the same result, varying only according to the circumstances in which…

— James Monroe

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

— Blaine Lee Pardoe

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

— Norm MacDonald

“It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Lucretia Mott

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