Principles Quotes · Page 69

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles…

— Franklin D Roosevelt

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

— Dostoyevsky

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Effectiveness of life should be measured by the results in the area of your calling or purpose”

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Meditate on your God-given strengths and learn to encourage yourself, for much of the time nobody else will.

— Melania

Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

— Sakyong Mipham

“To live an effective life, you have to turn your back on the things of the world”

— Sunday Adelaja

Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get…

— E. O. Wilson

A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful…

— Anonymous

If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong,…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where…

— Bill Owens

We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic…

— Immanuel Kant

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true…

— Thomas Jefferson

The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but…

— Mark Hopkins

The internal processes of muscle growth are seriously complicated, people devote their lives to it, but the external processes that kick it…

— Daniel Roberts

Originality is another criterion of aesthetic value. We may formulate an originality principle, according to which highly valuable works of art provide…

— James Young

From a political perspective, it is important to uphold certain universal principles so that, for example, you can condemn both Islamist forms…

— Alison Assiter

I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we…

— Elon Musk

Friends should be chosen by a higher principle of selection than any worldly one. They should be chosen for character, for goodness,…

— Hugh Black

The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually…

— Noam Chomsky

The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established…

— Howard Zinn

Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and…

— Andrew Dickson White

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

— Walter Savage Landor

Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.

— James Russell Lowell

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave the consequences to Him who has the disposal of them

— Thomas Jefferson

The great thing about the Young Turks is that we've always stayed true to our principles.

— Ana Kasparian

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

— Ian Curtis

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

— Mahatma Gandhi

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

— Karel Capek

One of the principles of the Trump administration is that we will never sacrifice our economy on the altar of foreign policy.

— Peter Navarro

“A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

— Marcus Aurelius

One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom…

— Andy Stanley

Of the five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values.…

— Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“The ability to be intense in whatever you do is a key factor in reclaiming your lost years”

— Sunday Adelaja

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

— Anonymous

“You can’t make a difference if you are not trained in the principles of God”

— Sunday Adelaja