Principles Quotes · Page 89

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

— Anonymous

“A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

— Benjamin Disraeli

For free-speech principles to be reinforced and free-market ideas to win the day, more people are going to have to stand up…

— Andrew Breitbart

“When you celebrate a person, you are celebrating the creator of that person”

— Sunday Adelaja

The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.

— Mark Driscoll

When you make the U-turn to the Universal Presence and apply the Universal practices and principles, your life is changed.

— Michael Beckwith

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it…

— Epictetus

What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus…

— Ayn Rand

The principle of fasting is taught in almost all major world religions as a means of developing a higher level of self-mastery…

— Stephen Covey

Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle that individuals should not…

— Steven Pinker

Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning…

— Vernon Howard

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. For prejudices, as…

— Richard M. Weaver

“Principles are like lighthouses. They are natural laws that cannot be broken. As Cecil B. DeMille observed of the principles contained in…

— Stephen R. Covey

I think the narcissism comes from the industry side of things. The artistic side of a person is never narcissist; it's always…

— Jordan Gavaris

Freedom, justice and equality are three principles of life are with us before the fast, they should be with us during the…

— Louis Farrakhan

Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons…

— Shirley Hazzard

Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them…

— E. B. White

It is part of our "Mormon" theology that the Constitution of the United States was divinely inspired; that our Republic came into…

— David O. McKay

A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does…

— Jaron Lanier

There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful…

— David Bohm

Americans who believe their government should not be a giant ATM, dispensing money and benefits to people who have not earned them,…

— Cal Thomas

According to Ayurvedic principles, by understanding oneself, by identifying one's own constitution, and by recognizing sources of doshic aggravation, one can not…

— Vasant Lad

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness,…

— James F. Cooper

“Always be humble and open to changing your perceptions, but guarded and uncompromising in maintaining your principles.”

— Gavin Nascimento

We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

— Charles de Secondat

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

— Leo Tolstoy

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

— Pierre Omidyar

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

— Arthur Machen

A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

— Rachel Cusk

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

— Pope Pius XII

“The primary thing that determines how effective your life is how you carry out your calling”

— Sunday Adelaja

“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do.  I need not sell my soul to buy bliss.”

— charlotte brönte

“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.”

— Winston Churchill

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

— Philip Yancey

“A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

“Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don't stop taking right actions.”

— Amit Kalantri

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

— Elie Wiesel

This is the most important principle of reading on the Internet: You must determine for yourself whether or not something is true.

— Stephen Downes