Principles Quotes

I have added these principles to the law: get the Knights into action before both Bishops are developed

The kingdom of God must never be reduced to talk, ideas and principles. The kingdom of God is power

Moral principle is the foundation of law.

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Become aware of and recognize fully the fact that the Principle of Power within you is God Himself. You must consciously identify yourself with the Highest.

The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

I say you have to remember in darkness what he told you in light. And the principle is this that there are times that it does feel like God is playing hide and go seek. But I trust him.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.

There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.

I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government.

The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.

What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

Simply put, if you want Bible results, you have to live by Bible principles.

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly.

There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles.

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

God is not a respecter of persons but a respecter of principles that are in his word.

True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind.

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

Circumstances should never alter principles!

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken, It's all contractual and about money makin'.