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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“The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.”
“I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.”
“There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.”
“The only truly reliable source of stability is a strong inner core and the willingness to change and adapt everything except that core.”
“The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.”
“The superior man is aware of righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.”
“The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.”
“With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.”
“All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.”
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