Principle Based Quotes

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.

A politician’s task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible accord with the ideal and the principled.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

Don't do what's right to get something. Do the right thing because it's the right thing.

It is one thing to oppose a bill and say, 'Well, I'm smarter than the other side and have more wisdom than they do,' but it is another thing to oppose a law because it violates the very principles upon which this country was founded.

The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Phænomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations.

We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man

Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.

Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says.

You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.

It's about the principles, it's about the rule of law. You don't have to stay silent when you see something that you don't like that is inconsistent of these timeless principles.

We must make a decision of values.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.

It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

I want politicians to be held to account for their politics and their principles, or lack of them, but I find it irritating that we have a culture where people are more interested in trivial gossip than substantive matters.

I don't mess with Mase no more, because me, personally, I just go by a different standard than people.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.

I'm the only person that has ever run a principle-based legislative body.

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.

I would never try to motivate anyone to follow me. I would motivate him to follow certain principles.

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.