Principles Quotes

Miracles are exceptions principles are the rules.

Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide.

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

A person must have principles, Epiphany. That's the one thing no one can take from you. The only way you can lose your principles is to give them up. Remember that.

But in his years among the drow, Drizzt Do'Urden had learned to look beyond physical beauty and physical attraction. Drizzt did not separate the physical from the emotional. He was a superb fighter because he fought with his heart and would no sooner battle merely for the sake of battle than he would mate for the sake of the physical act.

All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.

Stefan Molyneux

Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them should be to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

William Shakespeare

People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don’t much care about how well it works, just about how right it is … they may even like it better if it inflicts enough pain.

If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance - the full range of what human beings, with all their flaws and foibles, might endure or create - if you enthroned principle above even reason, weren't you then abdicating the responsibilities of a thinking person?

Sonia Sotomayor

The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be able, through all compromises, when they are unavoidable, to remain true to its principles, to its class, to its revolutionary purpose, to its task of paving the way for revolution and educating the mass of the people for victory in the revolution.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Drizzt felt the despair most keenly. For all the trials of his hard life, the drow had held faith for ultimate justice. He had believed, though he never dared to admit it, that his unyielding faith in his precious principles would bring him the reward her deserved. Now, there was this, a struggle that could only end in death, where one victory brought only more conflict.

Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

... the best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.

A principle is not merely a fundamental truth, but principles must serve as the very first source of every decision we make along the road to success.

While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the past, it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice.

Robert S. Mulliken

It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

G.K. Chesterton

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

Thomas Jefferson

I believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions.”“The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain,” Chakotay said with equal certainty.“So is the road to peace,” Cambridge observed.

It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.

His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

Your success is determined by the principles upon which you live your life.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

In this country our principles should not be silent.

Dan Groat

When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things - a principle that he actually lived by.

Jean-Christophe Valtat

If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force.

Sun Tzu

Principles? Principles won’t do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags—rags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; you want a deliberate belief.

Always remember coin has two sides.

rja

Past is a Lesson, Present is a Mission, Future is a Vision.

Life will treat you according to how you observe its rules and principles.

Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.

Bruce Lee

You can't do wrong right, but you can do right wrong.

Success is not an accident, it's a result of the choices we make, based on principles we believe in..

Jeremy M Coates

All battles should be based on principles. And in a battle of principles, it is not the size of the adversary that matters. It is the size of the principle.

The principles of the Kingdom of God make it possible to live life at its highest level.

Only God’s principles and not fame and money can make a person truly free.

If we want to abide and move in the Kingdom of God, we have to become obedient to theprinciples of the Kingdom

Your life is a result of life`s principles that you either observed or violated.

Principles and their consequences are always constant.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.

Aristotle

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. If they are happy by surprise, they find themselves disabled, unhappy to be deprived of their unhappiness.

Sometimes principles must be quitted without blinking en eye to discover the new paths!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If you constantly allow negative statements into your life, you run the risk of adopting such negative statements as your convictions and principles. Generally, you will have a pessimistic outlook towards life.

I am a man of principles, and my first principle is flexibility.

Everett Dirksen

A man of principles is a man of his word

Personal commitment to the principles of the kingdom must take pre-eminence

By Trial And Error Divine Principles That Govern Our Behavior Has Been Discovered

The principles you pursue becomes a worth when it reflects

297. We cannot reform without focusing on God and His principles

We cannot reform without focusing on God and His principles

The gospel of the kingdom talks about principles of the kingdom.

It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification.

Difference in opinion does not imply difference in principle.

One of the reasons to see improved productivity in Agile is because of the simplicity principle.

Pearl Zhu

Any place you compromise in principle you will execute in performance.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles

To be a first partaker is to understand the principles needed

To be given to the study of the scriptures is to discover more principles

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