Principles Quotes

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

I thank God, I have been able, by adopting Principles of strict Economy and Frugality, to keep my principal, I mean my Country-Estate, unimpaired.

The principle question before us is not, do we comprehend the atonement, but, do we accept it.

I would like to remembered as President as somebody who did not compromise principles in order to try to be loved or liked.

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

I would like a practical president, but I would like to be able to have his practicality based on principles, and not just who - I mean the room with.

What the media is doing is, again, just going after the Democrats and the Republicans and making it about politics instead of principles.

The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not.

At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.

I probably have mellowed down a bit. But when it comes to principles, I still have to make a stand.

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.

As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal.

The Christian principles on which the country was primarily founded are rarely consulted other than for formalities of state, derision, or for the purpose of contrasts in the making of new laws.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

There is no escape from the vast imbalances in international trade and finance. They will be corrected, sooner or later, by the inexorable principles that govern human action.

The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own Indian citizens.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social, and political, with which I entered Parliament 30 years ago.

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

No man is fit to be a Senator...unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter of the multiplication table.

Tintoretto attempted to fill the line of Michelangelo with color, without tracing its principle.

The degree to which fear now becomes an organizing principle of society is enormous compared to what it was like in the past.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

In some things, we Americans leave to other countries the carrying out of the principle that stands at the head of our Declaration of Independence.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.

Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife

Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.

It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.

In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.

It's unnatural and unhealthy for a nation to be engaged in global crusades for some principle or idea while neglecting the needs of its own people.

In the television business, I don't think anyone will let you go in and pitch a show unless you use the words 'organizing principle' or 'this is the prism through which we see their lives'.

Norbit operates on the principle that vulgarity is automatically funny. Crassness doesn't need a joke attached because it is (in and of itself) the height of hilarity.

We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

The Internet is like a town that leaves its streets unmarked on the principle that people who don't already know don't belong