Stand Firm in Your Principles Quotes
Right is right even when you stand alone. The man with firm convictions cannot be bought, bent, or slowly drifted off course. This Character path holds history's strongest quotes on conviction and standing your ground. Scroll through and put them to work.
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“Stand up for what you believe in, even if it means standing alone.”
“Commitment in the face of conflict produces character.”
“If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing.”
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
“Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.”
“Doing the right thing is always right.”
“To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.”
“Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”
“Be alert, stand firm in the faith, act like a man, be strong.”
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
“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.”
“The superior man thinks only of virtue - the common man thinks only of comfort.”
“Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.”
“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.”
“Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.”
“The young chase pleasure. Men follow principles.”
“The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.”
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
“If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.”
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
“He who is untrue to his own cause cannot command the respect of others.”
“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
“It's about finding your values and committing to them”
“There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.”
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
“Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.”
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36)”
“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”
“Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.”
“It's easier to hold to your principles 100 percent of the time than it is to hold to them 98 percent of the time.”
“Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.”
“Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.”
“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
“Right is right even if no one is doing it, and wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
“If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
