Principles Quotes

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If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to. — Benjamin Franklin
The ability to stand by one's principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one's belief-that is what matters, that is the difference between… — Howard W. Hunter
There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called different things at different… — Louis Adamic
Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles. — Roger Babson
Could many of our ills today have resulted from our failure to train a strong citizenry from the only source we have - the boys… — Ezra Taft Benson
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred. — Daniel Berrigan
It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time. — Mignon McLaughlin
He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. — Confucius
Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is far more than… — Ezra Taft Benson
The price of peace is righteousness. Men and nations may loudly proclaim, 'Peace, peace,' but there shall be no peace until individuals nurture in their… — Ezra Taft Benson
We strive to hire and retain only those who embrace our MBMÂ® Guiding Principles, which encompass integrity, compliance, value creation, Principled Entrepreneurship, customer focus, knowledge,… — Charles Koch
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude — Charles Caleb Colton
'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself… — Michel de Montaigne
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you… — Seneca the Younger
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a… — Albert Schweitzer
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to… — C. D. Broad
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially… — Bill Bowerman
They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with… — Vladimir Putin
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is .… — Henri Frederic Amiel

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