Principles Quotes

I do believe, in the long term, we will either get back to the principles that built America or we lose this country. And I'm an optimist.

Popularity isn't the end-all, be-all. What matters far more is that you stick to your principles, that you stand up and you live a life of integrity.

What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.

You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.

We need a consistent conservative, someone who has stood for free market principles, who has stood for the Constitution and, critically, who stood for the working men and women of this country.

Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles.

People should find what approach really speaks to them, and then do it. Obviously, better with a good teacher, who can help you on the path. But in any case, basic principles.

The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced...the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.

I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.

O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference to Thee!

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.

Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.

There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ.

The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.

Godzilla it's not a remake, it's our chapter. I think what I'm most excited about is all the principles that we laid out in the beginning, I feel like we were able to hit on those things.

When I think of civil liberties I think of the founding principles of the country. The freedoms that are in the First Amendment. But also the fundamental right to privacy.

Conservative principles place growth and opportunity at the forefront, and I look forward to the RNC continuing to promote those values in communities across the nation as we grow the party.

Hitler understood the demagogues' essential principle to teach or persuade is far more difficult than to stir emotion.

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.

Change isn't always bad; we should always be learning and improving. But the change I was seeing involved principles, not procedures.

I think the guiding principle for me is working with people, because I don't know how long it's going to last, I want to seize the moment and work with people I want to work with.

We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter.

Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'

You have that within you which is ever impelling you toward the upward and advancing way; and that impelling something is the divine Principle of Power; you must obey it without question.

If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress.

Rise above principle and do what is right.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.

When you build a bridge, you insist that it can carry 30,000 pounds, but you only drive 10,000-pound trucks across it. And that same principle works in investing.

If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.

I always felt completely confident - it's like in a feature film, knowing your principle character is extremely well-cast. I had that same confidence in Clive [Oppenheimer].