Principles Quotes

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective throughout the centuries.

Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe."

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Presence always wins out over principles.

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

We do not know how to formulate string theory nor do we know its underlying principles. Surprisingly, this fact does not stop us from making progress.

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.

...in this way the structure of the universe- I mean, of the heavens and the earth and the whole world- was arranged by one harmony through the blending of the most opposite principles.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

The principle aim of gymnastics is the education of all youth and not simply that minority of people highly favored by nature.

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

The 80/20 Principle, like the truth, can make you free. You can work less. At the same time, you can earn more and enjoy more. The only price is that you need to do some serious 80/20 thinking.

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change mitigation policy

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle.

I like Arsene for his principles but principles are sort of a restriction and restrictions are always lost possibilities.

Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

The New Deal is inconsistent with the principles of limited government and with the constitutional provisions designed to secure that end.

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

When our party had only seven men, it already had two principles. First, it wanted to be a party with a true ideology. And second, it wanted to be the one and only power in Germany.

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what fiction is, and should be.

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

The general principle is that the victors don't look at themselves or concede anything. The defeated typically have to, except when it's beneficial to the powerful for them not to.

Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.

One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.