Principles Quotes

Principles Quote of the day

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.

In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

Believe it in your heart; say it with your mouth. That is the principle of faith. You can have what you say.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

You gotta judge a man by his principles.

As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.

Reality is only a term, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for.

In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.

If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

It is my principle never to accept any donations from any government or any foreign funded organisation.

Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.

A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends.

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.

Those who deny the first principle should be flogged or burned until they admit that it is not the same thing to be burned and not burned, or whipped and not whipped.

One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Strength of character is certainly needed to face life in the world and to stand by right principles, especially in the age in which we live.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.