Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly.

You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.

Just remember, strength and courage. If you stand on principle, you'll never lose.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

I've always said there is a boulevard that exists between compromising your principles and getting everything you want. Now, we should never compromise our principles. And I never have. Those are the things that people vote for you on, that's the core of who you are. But there's always a boulevard between that and getting everything you want.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down - I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.

The hardest thing in life is to know when to hold fast to one’s principles and when it is acceptable to bend them.

One clings to principles for only as long as they are not put to the test. When that happens one throws them away as the peasant does his slippers.

One of the highest qualities of all true leadership is a high standard of courage. … There has never been time in the Church when its leaders were not required to be courageous men; not alone courageous in the sense that they were able to meet physical dangers, but also in the sense that they were steadfast and true to a clear and upright conviction.

Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

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.

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.

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

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

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

All the evils of France have been produced less by the perversity of the wicked and the violence of fools than by the hesitation of the weak, the compromises of conscience, and the tardiness of patriotism. Let every deputy, every Frenchman show what he feels, what he thinks, and we are saved!

Virtue is reason which has become energy.