Principles Quotes
The origin of agriculture involved both human intentionality and a set of underlying ecological and evolutionary principles.
Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.
But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name.
For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.
In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.
I started out in a kid’s backyard playing touch football and I never abandoned the principle when I got to the pros: if they can’t touch you, they can’t tackle you.
I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.
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.
We manifest character when self-sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of popularity.
Every conscientious husband and wife should measure their marriage by the unchanging standard of the principles found in God's Word.
He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.
Real democracy is only possible when people truly imbibe democratic principles and respect ethical values above everything else.
In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language, and to which every language necessarily conforms.
It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.
I can't tell what god will do because I'm not God. I can only take you back to biblical principle.
Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.
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.
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.
Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.
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.
In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.
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.
I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.
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.
The stronger you stand on your principles, the easier it is to fight. The first time, it's tough, but the second time, it's always easier. You just have to push for your rights.
You can tell how much someone respects you by how much he respects your opinion. If he doesn't respect your opinion, he won't respect you.
What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.
The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.
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.
Voters never have to question where I stand - my principles or priorities. I am a pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-life conservative.
An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.
The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.
