Principles Quotes

I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be.

All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

As we look for humor, seek for the eternal perspective, understnd the principle of compensation, and draw near to our Heavenly Father, we can endure heardship and trial.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.

It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city [Danzig], rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.

In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created by a female Diety.

I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to the basic needs of health, security, education and equality.

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.

When you teach, you learn." "And I really don't go for religions of any kind. ...I reject them all....There were principles I thought were very important.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

There can be no such thing as "limited government," because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

... it is a fundamental principle of testing that you must know in advance the answer each test case is supposed to produce. If you don't, you are not testing; you are experimenting.

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.

The principle of plurality of wives never will be done away.

Money and power are not your true rewards. Your name, your principles, your impeccable standards, your virtuous conduct, and remains an influence with others long after you are gone.

The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.

The peoples' revolution... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

The 'divide & conquer' principle has been successfully implemented on our planet and is being used very effectively to keep us under control and in a perpetual state of conflict.

Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.