Quotes about Principles and Ideals

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."
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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
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Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.
Ian Fleming in James Bond - Casino Royale
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It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Principle is okay up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.
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

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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.
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Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.
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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
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A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to.
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I'm starting to realize more than I ever wanted to, that doing the right thing doesn't always make you feel good.
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We all want to do the right thing. But the right thing is seldom free.
Kimble Hookstraten in Designated Survivor - Season 1 Episode 4
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We fight believing in our own justice. But if the enemy is doing the same thing, who's right?
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Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they're bad people. It means they're human.
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I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.
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No man chooses evil because it is evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
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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
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If you need the threat of hell to be a good person, then you're just a bad person on a leash.
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Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world.
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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
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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"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
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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
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My name is Bond. James Bond.
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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."
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That's the spirit - one part brave, three parts fool.
Brom in The Inheritance Cycle - Eragon
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Eragon: "The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living."
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May good fortune rule over you, peace live in your heart and the stars watch over you.
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Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.
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Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see.
Conductor in The Polar Express
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The one who lives in the memories of his loved ones can't be dead; dead is only who's forgotten.
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
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
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
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Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
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Follow your heart. But don't forget to bring your brain.
Don't ask what life is giving you, ask what you are giving.
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
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
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
Never stop war by taking part in one.
Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid - Part II
For person with no forgiveness in heart, living even worse punishment than death.
Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid - Part II
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Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.
Everything's a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.

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