Quotes about Principles and Ideals

Brom: "Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe."

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Eragon

Faith

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Law Morality

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

Ian Fleming in James Bond - Casino Royale

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Alfred Adler

Principle is okay up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

Dick Cheney - 1976

An ideal is only an ideal after all. As long as you embrace that ideal, the friction with reality will continue to increase. So you will someday face reality and will have to pay the price for your compromises.

Archer in Fate/stay night

Never put passion in front of principle, even if you win, you'll lose!

Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid - Part II

Winning

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We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Morality

Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Decisions Morality

It is our choices that makes us who we are, and we always have a choice to do what's right.

Peter Parker in Spider-Man

Decisions Morality

A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to.

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Brisingr

Warriors Morality

I'm starting to realize more than I ever wanted to, that doing the right thing doesn't always make you feel good.

Thomas Adam Kirkman in Designated Survivor - Season 1 Episode 4

Morality

We all want to do the right thing. But the right thing is seldom free.

Kimble Hookstraten in Designated Survivor - Season 1 Episode 4

Morality

We fight believing in our own justice. But if the enemy is doing the same thing, who's right?

Shisui Uchiha in Naruto

Justice Morality

Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they're bad people. It means they're human.

Kishou Arima in Tokyo Ghoul

Humanity Morality

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

Sidney Poitier

Motivation Morality

No man chooses evil because it is evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Morality

An enemy that is pure evil? Right or wrong are not what separates us and our enemies. It's our different standpoints, our perspectives that separate us. Both sides blame one another. There's no good or bad side. Just two sides holding different views.

Squall in Final Fantasy - VIII

Morality

If you need the threat of hell to be a good person, then you're just a bad person on a leash.

Hölle Morality

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

Mario Cuomo

Morality

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Earl Warren

Law Morality

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Andrew Young

Morality

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world.

Abraham Lincoln

Morality

I’ve known good criminals and bad cops. Bad priests, honorable thieves. You can be on one side of the law or the other. But if you make a deal with somebody, you keep your word. You can go home today with your money and never do this again. But you took something that wasn’t yours. And you sold it for a profit. You’re now a criminal. Good one, bad one? That’s up to you.

Mike Ehrmantraut in Better Call Saul - Season 1 Episode 9

Crime Morality

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Morality

"People are islands," she said. "They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years."

Ian Fleming in James Bond - Casino Royale

Relationships

You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face

Ian Fleming in James Bond - You Only Live Twice

Life Death

My name is Bond. James Bond.

James Bond in James Bond

Saphira: "Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Eldest

Present

That's the spirit - one part brave, three parts fool.

Brom in The Inheritance Cycle - Eragon

Eragon: "The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living."

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Eldest

Death Grief & Condolence

May good fortune rule over you, peace live in your heart and the stars watch over you.

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Eldest

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Faith Hope Sun

Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.

Conductor in The Polar Express

Faith

The one who lives in the memories of his loved ones can't be dead; dead is only who's forgotten.

Immanuel Kant

Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Immanuel Kant

Lies

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew - 7,12

Law Bible

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Honoré de Balzac

Law Spiders

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

Ian Fleming

Men

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Ian Fleming

Success

Follow your heart. But don't forget to bring your brain.

Alfred Adler

Mind vs. Heart

Don't ask what life is giving you, ask what you are giving.

Alfred Adler

Selflessness

He is a coward. A real man wouldn't lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it. He knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know.

Dick Cheney - August 2022

Donald Trump US Elections

In our nation's 246 year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. There is nothing more important Liz will ever do than lead the effort to make sure Donald Trump is never again near the Oval Office.

Dick Cheney - August 2022

Donald Trump Liz Cheney

Someday my memories will fade… and her voice, her actions, I might forget them as well. But I will always remember that I loved Saber.

Shirou Emiya in Fate/stay night

Eternity is instantaneous, and an instant is eternal.

Archer in Fate/stay night

Eternity

Never stop war by taking part in one.

Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid - Part II

War Argument Fighting

For person with no forgiveness in heart, living even worse punishment than death.

Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid - Part II

Forgiveness & Mercy

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

Roger Staubach

Winning

Everything's a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Winning

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