Stand Firm in Your Principles Quotes
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“Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”
“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.”
“Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone.”
“The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.”
“There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.”
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
“To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.”
“Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”
“The superior man thinks only of virtue - the common man thinks only of comfort.”
“It’s about finding your values and committing to them”
“Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“Doing the right thing is always right.”
“I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.”
“Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
“Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.”
“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
“Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.”
“Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.”
“Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.”
“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”
“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
“Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear a word you're saying.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
“If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”
“The young chase pleasure. Men follow principles.”
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
“A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.”
“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
“Right is right even if no one is doing it, and wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.”
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
“He who is untrue to his own cause cannot command the respect of others.”
“Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.”
“Right is right, even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it.”
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have.”
“Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.”
“Be alert, stand firm in the faith, act like a man, be strong.”
“A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”
“Strong convictions precede great actions.”
“A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures, and that is the basis of all human morality.”
