Quotes about Principles
One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.
— Ezra Taft Benson
As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only guide to man is his conscience.
— Winston Churchill
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.
— Thomas Jefferson
We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.
— Earl Nightingale
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
— Samuel Johnson
Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
— Laurence Sterne
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.
— Albert Camus
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
— Edmund Burke
Live the principles and the values. Almost nobody in America is living them. Learn the truth. Live the life of our founders. Be a decent, righteous, forthright honest man or woman.
— Glenn Beck
If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.
— Theodore Roosevelt