Every principle has a promise.

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

— Stephen Ambrose

Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle…

— Bruce Lee

To put it another way, I believe that purpose and principle, clearly understood and articulated, and commonly shared, are the genetic code of any…

— Dee Hock

Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's…

— Orson F. Whitney

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the…

— Albert Pike

There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.

— Erica Jong

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

— Ellen Glasgow

Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and to share…

— Chuck Norris

“As a principle-centered person, you see things differently. And because you see things differently, you think differently, you act differently. Because you have a…

— Stephen R. Covey

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“An 'established principle' is the one which will never become untrue, irrespective of time.”

— Dada Bhagwan