Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they are inconvenient.
Author: Rod Lurie | Source: The movie The Contender (2000) | Subjects: Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Personal Improvement, Principles, Psychology | Behavior, Wisdom
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, “is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “is it politic?” Vanity asks the question, “is it popular?” But conscience asks the question, “is it right?”
Author: Martin Luther King Jr. | Subjects: Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Personal Improvement, Principles, Psychology | Behavior