Ronald Reagan Quotes

I've had too many opportunities to sell out.

I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.

Don’t put yourself in a situation where you will not be able to achieve your ideals without violating them.

While I am willing to compromise on process or on programs, I will not compromise my principles, nor would I expect those I work with to do so.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I will never say something I don't agree with or believe in... even if the reward is massive!

Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'

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

I'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily... and I'm reliable.

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

I don't give in, I don't give up, I don't take no for an answer.

Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.

I don't see myself stopping, even though it gets harder and harder. Especially when you find out that you can't really compromise because of age.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.

Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending.

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.

There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.