Accounts Quote by Mark Twain

Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they are inconvenient.

— Simi Ngr

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

— Laura Schlessinger

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

— Christopher Hitchens

Principles aren't something you hear much from politicians these days. Have you noticed? Right across the board, leaders, whatever the political coloring, avoid talking…

— Vanessa Redgrave

If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

— Warren Buffett

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

— Oscar Wilde

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up…

— Max Lerner

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep,…

— Stephen Covey

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

— Alan Sugar

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

— Adlai E Stevenson