Laura Schlessinger Quotes

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

Don't compromise your principles.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth.

Integrity is never painless.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

I would not compromise my principles for politics. You're saying, will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having? If it does, so be it. I don't compromise my principles for politics.

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.

Stand up for what you know is right.

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

My future is righteousness.

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.

You can’t set aside … values in the name of political expediency.

I cannot sacrifice or compromise my principles.

I have a clean conscience and ideals that I am willing to defend.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.