Steve Jobs Quotes

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

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.

I would never want to disrespect my beliefs. There are certain, obviously different, areas you wouldn't go. It's not congruent to who I am as a person, and it would be insincere, and it wouldn't be based on truth.

I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle.

If your values don't alienate anyone, it is just platitude.

I'm always going to stand up for my beliefs and stand behind them.

People want to know that I'm a person of conviction.

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.

To say America can have strong leadership without strong character is to say we can get water without the wet.

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

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.'

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

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.

Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.

My future is righteousness.

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

I do believe in standing for something more than just a product.

I would never, never do anything unless I believed in it.

Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.