Clint Smith Quotes

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

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don't. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

Practice yourself what you preach.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

We are not nave enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

We must practice what we preach.

… he must deceive, misrepresent, leave false impressions … and trust to charm, loyalty and the result to make up for it…. A great man cannot be a good man.

Occasionally the conflict between 'what we stand for' and 'what we do' has been forthrightly addressed.

I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.

My moral standing is lying down.

You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.

The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.