Principles Quotes

"Everything in excess is opposed to nature." "I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good." "The only thing you have in this business game is your word." "Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law." "Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles" "Principles are ways of successfully dealing with reality to get what you want out of life" "Peace if possible, truth at all costs" "I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen" "Of two evils, choose neither." "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both" "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity" "How you do anything is how you do everything" "Truth is the essential foundation for producing good outcomes" "If we aren’t willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all." "One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised " "If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me nothing to make my friends proud of my memory but I have lov'd the principle of beauty in all things and if I had had time I would have made myself remember'd" "I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts" "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong" "Always vote for principle though you may vote alone" "Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it"