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principle 2
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When you know what your values are,
making decisions becomes easier.
Glenn van Eckeren
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Learn from your
earliest days to insure your principles against the
perils of
ridicule. If you think it right to differ from
the times, and to make a stand
for any valuable point
of
morals, do it, however rustic, however antiquated,
however pedantic it may appear;
do it, not for insolence,
but seriously, and
grandly, as people who wear souls of their own
in
their bosoms, and do not
wait till it shall be
breathed into them by the breath of fashion.
Sydney
Smith
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Any
business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-offs
and its eager-beavers sooner or later will find itself
with more goof-offs than eager-beavers.
Mike
Delaney
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My creed is that
public service must
be more than doing a job efficiently
and honestly. It must be a complete
dedication to the
people and to the
nation with full recognition that every
human being is entitled to courtesy
and consideration,
that constructive
criticism is not only to be expected
but sought, that smears are not only
to be expected but
fought, that
honor is to be earned, not bought.
Margaret Chase Smith
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It's
important that people should
know what you stand for. It's
equally
important that they know
what you won't stand for.
Mary
H. Waldrip
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But warm, eager,
living life--to be rooted in life--to learn, to desire to
know,
to feel, to think, to act. That is what I want. And
nothing less. That is what I must try for.
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Always
fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is
given,
and make it your own way. My aim in life has
always been
to hold my own with whatever's going. Not
against: with.
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Faithfully faithful to every trust,
Honestly honest in every deed,
Righteously righteous and justly just:
This is the whole of the good man's creed.
Anon
I
cannot and will not cut
my conscience
to fit
this year's
fashion.
Lillian
Hellman
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If people walk in the woods for the love of
them half of each day, they are in danger
of being regarded
as loafers; but if they spend their whole day as speculators,
shearing off those woods and making earth
bald before her time,
they are esteemed industrious and
enterprising citizens.
As if a town had no interest in
forests but to cut them down!
Henry David Thoreau
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Let us, then, be what we are;
speak what we think;
and in all things keep ourselves
loyal to truth.
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I believe in one
God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond
this
life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe
that
religious duties consist in doing justice, loving
mercy, and endeavoring
to make our fellow creatures happy.
Thomas Paine
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It says something about our times
that we rarely use the word sinful,
except to describe a
really good dessert.
Willard D. Ferrell
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Socrates:
If, acting under the advice of men who have
no understanding, we destroy that which is improvable by
health and deteriorated by disease--when that has been
destroyed, I say, would life be worth having? And that is--the
body?
Crito: Yes
Socrates: Could we live, having an evil and corrupted
body?
Crito: Certainly not.
Socrates: And will life be worth having, if that higher
part of man be depraved, which is improvable by justice
and deteriorated by injustice? Do we suppose that
principle, whatever it may be in man, which has to do
with justice and injustice, to be inferior to the body?
Crito: Certainly not.
Socrates: More honored, then?
Crito: Far more honored.
Socrates: Then, my friend, we must not regard what the
many say of us: but what he, the one man who has
understanding of just and unjust, will say, and what the
truth will say. And therefore you begin in error when you
suggest that we should regard the opinion of the many
about just and unjust, honorable and dishonorable.
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principle 2
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The place to take the test of a man is not
the forum or field, not the marketplace
or the amen
corner, but at his own fireside. There he lays aside his
mask
and you may judge whether he is imp or angel, king
or cur, hero or humbug.
I care not what the world says of
him, whether it crown him with bays
or pelt him with eggs;
I care never a copper what his reputation or religion may
be;
if his babes dread his homecoming and his better half
has to swallow her heart
every time she asks him for a
five dollar bill, he's a fraud of the first water,
even
though he prays night and morn until he is black in the
face,
and howls hallelujah until he shakes the eternal
hills. But if his children rush
to the front gate meet
him, and love's own sunshine illumines the face
of his
wife when she hears his footsteps, you may take it for
granted
that he is true gold, for his home's a heaven and
the humbug
never got that close to the great white throne
of God.
William Cowper Brann
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The
principles we live by, in business and in social life,
are the most important part of happiness.
Harry Harrison |
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We distinguish the excellent person from the common
person
by saying that the former is the one
who makes great demands
on him or herself, and the latter the one who
makes no demands
on him or herself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset |
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What does it profit
you if you gain
the whole world
and lose your own soul?
Jesus of Nazareth |
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faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Confucius |
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No
one knows what they are doing
so long as they are acting
rightly;
but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
One
thing is always wrong--always: to cause suffering in
others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures;
that is everlastingly wrong.
Lafcadio Hearn |
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A thing moderately
good is not so good as it ought to be.
Moderation in temper is
always a virtue;
but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
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Don't
believe that winning
is really everything. It's
more
important to stand
for something. If you don't
stand for
something,
what do you win?
Lane
Kirkland
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon
on the Mount as a flag to
sail under, but few will use it
as a rudder by which to steer.
Oliver Wendell
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