John Adams Quotes

Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

You won't see me compromising just because it is convenient for me to do so.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

Stand for right, even if you stand alone.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.

There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

I have a clean conscience and ideals that I am willing to defend.

I have my values and I always stick with them.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

Don't compromise your principles.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Stand up for what you know is right.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.