So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.
You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.
Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether someone is strong or weak, principled or apathetic, heroic or villainous. " (J. R. on writing the BDB series)
It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.
Anybody in my job steers a tightrope between being popular and being principled.
Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.
It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled.
Always make it a goal to keep your conversations cordial. Sometimes that will not be possible. If a principled, charitable expression of your ideas makes someone mad, there’s little you can do about it. Jesus’ teaching made some people furious. Just make sure it’s your ideas that offend and not you, that your beliefs cause the dispute and not your behavior.
Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.
That was a brave and principled thing for Ecuador to do [give me asylum application]. Now we have the U. S. election [campaign], the Ecuadorian election is in February next year, and you have the White House feeling the political heat as a result of the true information that we have been publishing.
I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism
I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market.
I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.
We're principled in the direction we're heading, but we're not going to be stubborn.
Somebody who sticks to his guns can be called a stubborn person or a principled person, it depends on whether you like his ideas or not. You can call somebody whose ideas you don't like an ideologist or a person of ideas. You can call somebody whose actions you don't like a pragmatist if you like them, or an opportunist if you don't.
Why are some people highly principled and willing to do anything for their principles, while most of us are not? And I am willing to not only ask, but also answer the question.
This duality, making yourself better while teaching and developing others' judgment capabilities, is the key to leadership that is both productive and principled.
But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
