Principles Quotes

You must practice to be able to return to essential principles at any moment.

Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertarianism as an ideal - because I'm an idealist.

North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

We will never obtain God's kind of marriage simply by going along with the crowd, doing what everybody else does. We have to dig deep into the heart of God to discover His principles.

If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity

I prefer Buddhism because it gives three principles in combination, which no other religion does. This is what man wants for a good and happy life. Neither god nor soul can save society.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

The principle of self defense is an American tradition that began at Lexington and Concord.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.

Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic.

Filial Piety is the principle of Heaven, The righteousness of Earth, And the (proper) conduct of the people.

It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry.

[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.

Truth contains a vital principle and will manifest itself.

It is a universal principle that whenever one refuses to use his God-given powers, these powers decay and perish.

After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend to learn in theory only.

The 80/20 principle - that 80 percent of result flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.

True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse and which suddenly dies when severely tested.

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.

Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.

Under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

Every guy knows he can find a girl who is simply satisfied with satisfying him. They are much more turned on by a woman who cares about her own pleasure as well.

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.