Amy Grant Quotes

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

If you grew too fond of public life it might exact compromises even if finances were not involved.

Be sensible, that is, cease to be honest.

I am very thankful and blessed that I haven't had to sell my soul and be anything that I'm not.

Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.

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

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

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is the best policy, present temptation is often found to be an overmatch for those considerations.

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity

If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

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

For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

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.

The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.