It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
Adler, Alfred

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own
Aesop

If principles can become dated, they're not principles.
Buffett, Warren Edward

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
Gandhi, Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker, if you will.
Guest, Judith

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms
Guevara, Che

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Hamilton, Alexander

I may not be a man of courage, but I am a man of principles
Howard, Geoff

In the matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock
Jefferson, Thomas

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Kossuth, Louis

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just
Lincoln, President Abraham

Important principles may and must be inflexible.
Lincoln, President Abraham

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.
MacDonald, George

One never stands taller or more firmly grounded than when they stand on their principals.
Martino, Joseph P

He whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Paine, Thomas

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation is principle is always a vice
Paine, Thomas

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness - it means more to me than my life itself.
Sade, Marquis de

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
Twain, Mark

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Twain, Mark

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Unknown

You must live for what you believe in and believe in what you live for
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