Ifs Quote by Marvin Bower

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

— Simi Ngr

If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are,…

— Clint Smith

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

— Ray Dalio

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken…

— Red Skelton

Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

— Multatuli

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 are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life. They can be applied…

— Ray Dalio

Principles are what people have instead of God.

— Alexander Schmemann

If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw over your…

— Epifanio de los Santos

“People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don’t much care about how well it works, just about how right…

— John Barnes

Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept…

— Ken Buck

I have never lived on principles. When I have had to act, I never first asked myself on what principles I was going to…

— Otto von Bismarck