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To know what is right and not do it
is the worst cowardice.
Confucius |
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Let
then our first act every morning be to make
the following
resolve for the day: I shall not fear anyone on earth. I shall fear only God. I shall not bear ill will
toward anyone. I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. I shall conquer
untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth I shall put up with all
suffering.
Mohandas
Gandhi
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Science has taught us
how to put the atom to work. But to make it work
for good instead of for evil lies
in the domain dealing
with the principles of human duty.
Bernard
M. Baruch
There is only one
principle, and this is Good. There is no principle of evil. If
there were a principle of evil, evil would be positive and not negative, and
therefore could never be overcome, because it would be eternal and unchanging.
Henry T. Hamblin
Humans
are condemned to be free; because once thrown
into the
world, they are responsible for everything they do.
Jean
Paul
Sartre
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The
principles you live by create the world you live in;
if you change the principles you live by,
you will change your world.
Blaine
Lee
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It is not
alone what we do, but also what
we do not do, for which
we are accountable.
Moliere
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My creed is
this:
Justice is the only worship;
Love is the only priest;
Ignorance is the only slavery;
Happiness is the only good;
The time to be happy is now,
The place to be happy is here,
The way to be happy is
to make others so.
Robert Ingersoll |
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It is often easier to fight for one's
principles
than to live up to them.
Adlai Stevenson |
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Give the best you have
received from the past to the best
that you may come
to
know in the future. Accept life daily
not as a cup to be drained
but as a chalice to be filled
with
whatsoever things are honest, pure, lovely, and of good
report. Making a
living is best undertaken as a part of the
more important
business of making a life. Every now and
again take a good look at
something not made of hands--a
mountain, a star, the turn
of a stream. There will come to
you wisdom
and
patience and solace and, above all,
the assurance that
you are not alone in the world.
Sidney
Lovett
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I believe that every right implies a
responsibility;
every opportunity an obligation; every
possession a duty.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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I suppose that one of
the biggest surprises I've encountered as an adult is
just how difficult it is to live by one's principles.
The perfect example of this can be seen on the road--years
ago I decided that I really had no right to break the
laws of the road, especially since I spent four years in
the army, supposedly to uphold the freedoms and
responsibilities of this country. It sounds easy,
doesn't it? Hmm. . . just try it--obey the traffic laws.
It's not easy at all. I go
the speed limit--not ten miles under--and I can't tell
you just how often I get tailgated, just how often people
put my life and the lives of others in my car in danger
by passing on double yellows or passing on the right (even
in residential areas where there's only one lane--people
have passed in the parking lane!), or how often I've been
flipped off by people who are in such a hurry that they
can't even respect my right to obey the law--no, my obligation
to obey the law. It's not a choice, or at least it
shouldn't be.
But the main point is that when
I want to follow my principles of obeying the laws of the
country I live in, I get harassed by people who don't
respect those laws. When I speak up for what is
right, others who disagree try to counter by putting me
down rather than responding to my arguments or points. When a friend does something wrong and
I say
something, I risk losing a friend. If a boss does
something unethical and I say something, I risk losing a
job.
Following our principles has been a
main tenet of virtually all great religious and spiritual
teachers, yet very few people are willing to focus a
great deal of effort on doing so. This should be,
in my mind, one of our highest priorities, for the
benefits to us and to those around us are great. People
who know me trust me, and that's one of the parts of my
life that I'm most proud of. When I pass a police
officer with a radar gun, I smile and wave--they have
enough stress in their lives with the people who speed
and then lie about it, and I know I'm not adding to that
stress. My employers trust me to do what I know is
right, but they also know that I'm more than willing to
examine my actions to see if I might not have been
mistaken in some way.
People who consistently put their
principles aside can't even trust themselves, when all is
said and done, and I can't think of anything sadder than
that.
tom walsh
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I am a man of fixed and
unbending principles, the first
of which is to be flexible at all times.
Everett Dirkson
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principle
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Integrity is
not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change
with the weather. It is your inner
image of yourself, and if you
look
in there and see a person who
won't cheat, then you know
you
never will.
John D.
MacDonald |
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We
get so much in the habit of wearing a disguise before others
that we eventually appear disguised before ourselves.
Jim
Bishop
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No
person, for any considerable time, can wear one face
to him or herself
and another to the multitude
without finally getting bewildered as to
which may be the true.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the
ages.
Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow,
we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.
Henry Ward Beecher |
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If
you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods,
but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Search for a rock, a
principle, and having found it, get it under your
feet and stand erect upon it, until at last, immovably fixed upon it,
you succeed in defying the fury of the waves and storms of
selfishness.
James Allen |
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There is only one real failure in
life that is possible,
and that is, not to be true to the
best one knows.
Frederick W. Farrar |
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Nature imitates herself.
A grain thrown into good ground brings forth
fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit.
Everything
is created and conducted by the same master: the root, the
branch,
the fruits--the principles, the consequences.
Blaise Pascal |
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Principles are like seeds;
they are little things which do much good,
if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
Seneca |
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They who float with the current,
who do not guide themselves according
to higher principles, who have no ideal, no convictions--such people
are things moved, instead of living and moving beings--echoes, not
voices.
Henri Frederic Amiel |
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It
is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings
than to put one principle into practice.
Leo Tolstoy |
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A fad lives its
life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through
generations and centuries; a principle, forever.
William G. Jordan |
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Back of
every noble life there are principles which have fashioned it.
George H. Lorimer |
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If you
focus on principles, you empower everyone who
understands those
principles to act without constant
monitoring, evaluating, correcting,
or controlling.
Stephen R. Covey |
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In matters of style, swim with
the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson |
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