...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
Interpretation
Sticking to your principles consistently is easier than doing so with occasional exceptions.
This quote emphasizes the importance of having steadfast principles and the ease that comes with adhering to them fully. When you commit to your values without compromise, it simplifies decision-making and reinforces your integrity, whereas allowing for exceptions can lead to confusion and moral ambiguity.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about the importance of integrity in leadership.
You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented.
Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.
Focus is scary—until you realize that it only means turning your back on markets you could never have anyway. Sharp focus on jobs that customers are trying to get done holds the promise of greatly improving the odds of success in new-product development.
Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.
Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.
Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.
If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not ‘live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died for you and rose again?’ Should any thing short of absolute perfection satisfy you? Should you not labour to ‘stand perfect and complete in all the will of God?’
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
The word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.
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