Consider Quote by Terence

It's not a principle unless it costs you something.

— Tobias Lutke

Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

— Ian Gardner

“something for something principle”. In other words, anything you choose to do will cost you in not doing something else. You can’t have it…

— Zoe McKey

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

— D. H. Lawrence

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

— William Bernbach

There are more things to gain from eliminating excess than you might imagine: time, space, freedom, and energy, for example.

— Fumio Sasaki

Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

— Winston Churchill

“On principle' one can do anything and what one does is, fundamentally, a matter of indifference, just as a man's life remains insignificant even…

— Søren Kierkegaard

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

— W. Somerset Maugham

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

— Daniel Berrigan

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

— L'Wren Scott