Robert Harris Quotes

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

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

Let our lives be in accordance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles.

I've had too many opportunities to sell out.

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

The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.

To hold on to what you believe is just and right.

Leading up to the fight [Trevor Berbick] took every opportunity he could to badmouth Larry Holmes and I just blew up. After I beat him in the ring, he tried to get me going again, saying he deserved another fight, wasn't happening.

Ferguson's out of order. He has lost all sense of reality. He is going out looking for a confrontation, then asking the person he is confronting to apologise. He's pushed the cork in a bit far this time.

I challenged Coleman and he accepted, he said he'd fight me. I pointed at Baroni and challenged him too, he looked at me with a bewildered look on his face and asked: "Me?", I said "Thats right, You!!" I also challenged Quinton Jackson and he looked at me and said "Me too?", and I responded. If you want some, there is some for you too!

I never turn down a fight.

My moral compass is strong.

Compromises lead you nowhere. You can't be happy doing something you don't believe in.

I have a pretty keen ethical compass.

I think my morals are perfectly... tight!

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

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand?

What I like to do is to give my real name in Starbucks but be really hostile each time, as if they're asking me something that I've never heard in my life. I give them a really dirty look, "Really? It's Natasha. Okay?" Like I've never been to Starbucks before. Each time. I enter the premises looking for combat.

But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.

My last fight was more than 20 years ago. I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover. If somebody's going to speak bad about me, I will walk away. But if a guy like Steven Seagal slaps me once, I will slap him twice as hard. Life is full of violence.

Values are not just words, values are what we live by. They're about the causes that we champion and the people we fight for.

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.