Principles Quotes

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

In this ridiculously polarized, obstructionist world, the operating principle should be, Let's get something done. Not, Let's freeze everything.

I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind! Go West!

Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related or how facts illustrate underlying principles.

I don't have principles. I have nerves.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.

I think most directors subscribe to the principle that less is more, and the best direction is the most concise direction.

And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind

The principles that make someone a master in the chief executive role deal with whether or not they can thrive in an environment of ongoing duress, and teach others how to do so.

Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever they may lead without taking any easy or comfortable ways out.

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.

I think it is outrageous - to lock people's money away and change the rules on them. So, on point of principle, I stopped putting money into my pension.

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable... they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle of delight!

For venture capital, one of the original principles is people you want to invest in are people who've done it before with someone else's money. Not people who've just came out of business school.

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

It's not that easy to quit. When you look back in the American system it is very rare that people quit on issues of principle.

The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

the distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.

Principles don't mean anything until they cost you something.

We ought to be respecting the principle of equality.

But in spite of the obvious effectiveness of mathematics in physics, I have never heard of a good a prioriargument that the world must be organised to mathematical principles.

True love is impossible for those to whom principles mean little.

We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order.

False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religious expressions.

The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.

It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person.

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

The Santa Claus principle liquidates itself.

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

There is something very pleasing about the principles of science and the rules of math, because they are so inevitable and so harmonious - in the abstract, anyway.

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

God is not a person. God is an eternal principle.

An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle.

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

A person who has truly realized the principle of nonviolence has the God given strength for his weapon, and the world has not yet known anything that can match it.