Principles Quotes

Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths!

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote.

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.

Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter how hard you meditate, you will not be happy and you won't be liberated.

If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground

"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God.

There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework.

Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.

The only guiding principle you can use is to make something that you want to see.

We believe in the fundamental principles of the European economy.

Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

The [National Socialist] Party...is convinced that our nation can achieve permanent health only from within on the basis of the principle: The common interest before self-interest.

The principle applies here, help yourselves and Almighty God will not deny you his assistance.

The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.

The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

The great need to grasp principles had caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless persuits.

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.

In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.

I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

I am for a huge, huge tent that espouses conservative principles.

When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

It's a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.

Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.

It's not that I'm not willing to compromise. But I won't compromise on principles.

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.

I admire vegetarians who refuse to eat nothing but vegetables in their homes, but I also admire those who put aside those principles or those preferences when they travel. Just to be a good guest.

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do.

So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.

On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.