Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

No social system, however, elevates "Goodness" to a deciding principle, whether the realm be art, politics, or economics.

States are supposed to have interests but no principles. I have principles but no interests.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

Bad principles are not good substitutes for no principles. For to eight years of bad principles may make no principles look pretty good.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

The only thing you have in your life is your integrity.

I'm a good, upstanding guy with moral values and core values.

I will not ever change my principles. I will not do it. We have a 'how.' This is the most important thing we have - the 'how' we do things. Our style, our ideas, our principles with our mistakes that we have to correct.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

If someone is willing to sell out his principles for the job, he is not worthy of it.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

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