Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.
I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.
While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
My principles are more important than the money or my title.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept the world they live in and there are people who change the world they live in. I don't accept my circumstances.
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.