Principles Quotes

I'm not an expert on Islam, but I think there are lots of noble religions whose basic principles could stand considerably more observation in the world of business.

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

Abraham Lincoln once said that if you are a racist, I will attack you with the north. And those are the principles that I carry with me in the workplace.

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.

The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.

The United States is a Christian nation founded upon Christian principles and beliefs.

Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people.

Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

It is fairly easy to grasp abstract moral principles; it can be very difficult to apply them to a given situation, particularly when it involves the moral character of another person.

Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.

Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.

A society based on Christian principles provides for pluralism, but with enough restrictions to prevent civilization from degenerating into chaos.

In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

It is important to gain knowledge, yes, but any advantage we will have in the eternal life to come will be a knowledge, I am sure, of those saving principles upon which our eternal life will depend.

The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.

I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.

Occasionally one speaks... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order.

Whether you call the principle of existence "God," "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have merely changed a symbol. Eastern and Western Thinking, 1938

It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.

The four natural principles for success are: A clear goal, a definite plan, confidence, no fear of failure.

Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.

What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?

It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.

We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that.

In all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation.

One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.

Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.

There's no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn't back down.

We must each prepare ourselves for every good work that might come to us and then accept the principle that revelation, not aspiration, is the basis for our respective callings.

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.

People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.

The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST.

In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.