Alisher Usmanov Quotes

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

You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.

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

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

I'll never go against my morals.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

People should be judged by the principles they espouse and the principles they betray.

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.

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

My moral compass is strong.

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

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.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Don't pretend that you can just be oblivious to politics. You can't. What you never do is break your personal code. Have a code and keep it. You should never compromise what your priorities are.

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.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

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

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.