Common Quote by Tom Stoppard

I don't have principles. I have nerves.

— Joseph Brodsky

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 things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

— Multatuli

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

— Ray Dalio

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

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

— Mark Twain

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

— Simi Ngr

Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and…

— Stephen Covey

If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

— Marvin Bower

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

— Benjamin Disraeli

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

— Honore de Balzac

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