A Quote by Joseph Heller

Rise above principle and do what's right.

Joseph Heller

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Above Principle Right Rise Rise Above

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Joseph Heller
American - Writer
May 1, 1923 - December 12, 1999

Rise above principle and do what is right.

Walter Heller

We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

Ezra Taft Benson

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.

Huey Long

...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

Aristotle

There are always things that you see that are pretty tough, sure. But what keeps you going is when you see people rise above toughness and rise above really hard conditions, and make something of it.

Michael Elliott

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Joseph Heller

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

Robert Crais

The investor has a right to expect good results to flow from a consistent and courageous application of the principle of buying after the market has declined substantially and selling after it has had a spectacular rise. But he cannot expect to reduce this principle to a simple and foolproof formula, with profits guaranteed and no anxious periods.

Benjamin Graham

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

James Connolly

The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.

Frederick Lenz

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

Julia Ward Howe

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.

Alan Shepard

All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.