45 quotes found
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.”
“About my interests: I dont know if I have any, unless the morbid desire to own a sixteen-millimeter camera and make experimental movies can be so classified. Otherwise, I love to eat and drink its...”
“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ”
“Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.”
“Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.”
“To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.”
“Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.”
“One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”
“Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths!”
“I am a man of principles, and my first principle is flexibility.”
“A man of principles is a man of his word”
“The principles you pursue becomes a worth when it reflects”
“There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and circumstances in order to guide them. If there were prin...”
“In this country our principles should not be silent.”
“If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a sma...”
“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”
“One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suff...”
“Success is not an accident, it's a result of the choices we make, based on principles we believe in..”
“All battles should be based on principles. And in a battle of principles, it is not the size of the adversary that matters. It is the size of the principle.”
“Only Gods principles and not fame and money can make a person truly free.”
