Principles Quotes

It is easier for a rich person to act on their principles than it is for someone with fewer choices (which is why it is all the more disappointing when a wealthy person plays to the crowd).

We need to put our good research, our good work, our principles into actionable items whenever we can.

In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of the party, not just the power of the party

He [Pope Fransis] insists very clearly that only a union between man and woman, open to new life, by principle, can be called a marriage.

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice.

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes democracy so fascinating.

I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.

it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.

Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

I've got to put forward a very strong conservative voice, advocate for conservative values and advocate for principle in politics to restore faith in politics.

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people to act on them.

Well-taught doctrines and principles have a more powerful influence on behavior than rules.

Law has at least two roles: one is to define and regulate the limits of acceptable behavior. The other is to teach principles for individuals to make individual choices.

While it is important to be aware of and sensitive to cultural differences when conducting business internationally, the principles of transparency, trust, and partnership are universal.

Lincoln is quoted more often than he's understood, and he understood that the founding principle of our nation is, in fact, the Declaration of Independence.

If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.

Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.

Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what’s right.

The basic principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ are simple, and they are universal. Faith in the Savior is the same in Boston as it is in Accra.

The important thing is that the principles that Senator Obama outlined originally are now embraced and taxpayers will be protected.

How did they manage to raise their children in righteousness? The principles become part of their lives, and when it becomes part of their life, it isn't difficult to do.

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for hope; we get up and go to work.

I am against any pact with the Nationalists because I am against pacts in principle.

I had read an early profile of [Tony] Blair by Frank Millar in which he said that Blair was very keen on the 'consent principle'.

If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?

Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.

The principle was right there - you couldn't miss it. The more we did for our customers, the more they did for us.

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

No one fights with more principle and passion than Michael Gove.

Love and the search for truth are unifying principles.

Don't compromise your principles.

It's important to adhere to the principles of a large group of people that truly believe these principles, and if they believe them, then that's good enough for me.

Strong words are required for weak principles.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.