Principles Quotes

When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any organization as long as it didn't make us compromise our religious principles.

This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us.

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.

Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature.

Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of states been preserved by the cunning of architects.

There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of refinement and nobility of character.

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.

After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.

I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.

For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.

The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

The magnet principle says, 'Like attracts like.' You'll attract to you the people, circumstances, events, money and resources you need to accomplish your goals.

Students deserve our care and concern on the grounds of principle, not personality.

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

Economists get impatient with philosophy. They are often trained as skilled mathematicians. They don't like going back to ordinary language and first principles.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

I judge people by their own principles..not by my own

Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world.

What is God? God is the great life that fills the universe; it is the principle of life aswell.

As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.

I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected becomes more important than staying true to your principles.

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.

What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!

When you make the U-turn to the Universal Presence and apply the Universal practices and principles, your life is changed.

If you go with the principle, you should go with the principle. If I really saw the subject very differently than ten years ago, I would have done a different movie.

People have been educated to expect answers, even before the questions come along. It's the TV principle. You offer three possible answers before the questions come to relax and calm the audience.

A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.

I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.

I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting.

It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

This nation has gotten away from the principles of the founding fathers under the failed leadership of Barack Obama. This country could use a president like Benjamin Franklin again.