Principles Quotes

I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible.

Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

Engineering is the application of scientific principles toward practical ends. If the engineering isn't practical, it's bad engineering.

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

As the owner of the company, I'm always focusing on how my company can do more for less. And it's one of the principles of the world.

A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor inspire confidence.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our actions.

I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2.

The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

GIFTS is an acronym for Gratitude, Intention, Forgiveness, Triumphs, and Self-love. I believe that those are the principles we need to explore in order to discover our true gifts.

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.

A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle.

The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.

Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Music is a science which should have definite rules; these rules should be drawn from an evident principle; and this principle cannot really be known to us without the aid of mathematics.

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

That principle can be summed up in three simple words. Thoughts Become Things!

Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper training of the mind turns into beastly behavior.

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.

Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.

Albertans were looking for change. And so I think that we're staying true to our principles by working to deliver on that change. And I think that is what people were looking for

The first and only principle of sexual ethics: the accuser is always in the wrong.