Principles Quotes · Page 56

I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve…

— Stephen Covey

You have to stick to your principles and when you believe in something, to fight for it.

— Maxime Bernier

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

— George Polya

In the private sector we budget for rainy days or offset unexpected expenditures with spending cuts and the same principles should apply…

— Mike Braun

Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?

— Michael R. Burch

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with…

— Alexander Pope

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

— Lucretia Mott

Do not educate your child to be rich. Educate him to be happy. So when he grows up, he'll know the value…

— Keren Zhims

When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of…

— Martin Amis

We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of…

— Carl Jung

International affairs must be completely permeated with scientific methodology and a democratic spirit, with a fearless weighing of all facts, views, and…

— Andrei Sakharov

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral…

— Christopher Dawson

The Establishment Clause . . . stands as an expression of principle on the part of the Founders . . . that…

— Hugo Black

If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better…

— John Adams

A government on the principles on which constitutional governments arising out of society are established, cannot have the right of altering itself.…

— Thomas Paine

Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make…

— Abraham Lincoln

I say "on principle" [regarding 'lesbian writer'] because whenever you get one of your minority labels applied, like "Irish Writer," "Canadian Writer,"…

— Emma Donoghue

What makes the existence and the evolution of society possible is precisely the fact that peaceful cooperation under the social division of…

— Ludwig von Mises

The plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi...who realised too late that his closest comrades…

— Stanley Wolpert

The K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle was pounded into my head in school and I still follow it today in most…

— Jeff Fisher

I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly…

— Rem Koolhaas

And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers…

— David Brewster

A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I believe in the Constitution. I believe in separation of powers. I believe in the rule of law. I believe in limited…

— Bob Barr

I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America…

— Foster Friess

“It is only when you understand that God is in everyone that you can appreciate and treat them differently”

— Sunday Adelaja

Don't compare yourself to anybody else. You're unique, one of a kind, an original. So don't settle for being a copy.

— Melania

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

As Christians, we have an obligation and responsibility to abide by the principles of the Bible.

— S. Truett Cathy

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

— John Searle

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

— Epictetus

If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.

— Bill Moggridge

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.

— Howard Zinn

Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

— Franz Kafka

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

— William Rehnquist

[Barack Obama's ] only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.

— Nat Hentoff

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

— Alexander Hamilton

“The amount of value produced at a certain period depends on the level of focus used to attain it”

— Sunday Adelaja

People end up fleeing countries who adopt economic policies based on these flawed principles. And more often than not, they come here.

— Marco Rubio

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

— Henry A. Kissinger