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title: "24 Principle Life Quotes by 23 authors"
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> [“She's against it on principle, and life isn't run on principles but by adjustments”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/she-s-against-it-on-principle-and-life-isn-t-run-on-principles-but-by/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [“Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-weigel/freedom-is-the-great-organizing-principle-of-a-life-lived-in-a-truly/)

[George Weigel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-weigel/)

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> [This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence/this-i-consider-to-be-a-valuable-principle-in-life-do-no-thing-in/)

[Terence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terence/)

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> [The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/the-only-principle-i-can-see-in-this-life-is-that-one-must-forfeit/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

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> [Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/love-is-the-supreme-unifying-principle-of-life/)

[Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/)

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> [“Ram became revered because he functioned on the basis of the principle that life was not just about pleasure and hoarding things:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/devdutt-pattanaik/ram-became-revered-because-he-functioned-on-the-basis-of-the/)

[Devdutt Pattanaik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/devdutt-pattanaik/)

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> [Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-bernard-shaw/well-sir-you-never-can-tell-that-s-a-principle-in-life-with-me-sir-if/)

[George Bernard Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw/)

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> [Long ago made it a principle of my life to cultivate a positive frame of mind, to strive to project it and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-norris/long-ago-made-it-a-principle-of-my-life-to-cultivate-a-positive-frame/)

[Chuck Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-norris/)

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> [As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/casey-neistat/as-a-guiding-principle-life-shrinks-and-life-expands-in-direct/)

[Casey Neistat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/casey-neistat/)

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> [The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raymond-charles-barker/the-principle-of-life-is-that-life-responds-by-corresponding-your/)

[Raymond Charles Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raymond-charles-barker/)

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> [The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/the-soul-which-is-the-first-principle-of-life-is-not-a-body-but-the/)

[Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/)

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> [The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-safest-principle-through-life-instead-of-reforming-others-is-to/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-dawson/the-church-as-a-divine-society-possess-an-internal-principle-of-life/)

[Christopher Dawson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-dawson/)

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> [It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arnold-j-toynbee/it-is-a-paradoxical-but-profoundly-true-and-important-principle-of/)

[Arnold J. Toynbee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arnold-j-toynbee/)

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> [Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/isaac-d-israeli/self-love-is-a-principle-of-action-but-among-no-class-of-human-beings/)

[Isaac D'Israeli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/isaac-d-israeli/)

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> [Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexandra-stoddard/happiness-is-the-first-principle-of-life-happiness-basically-means/)

[Alexandra Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexandra-stoddard/)

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> [To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the feet of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-biden/to-me-this-is-the-first-principle-of-life-the-foundational-principle/)

[Joe Biden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-biden/)

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> [In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilhelm-wundt/in-aristotle-the-mind-regarded-as-the-principle-of-life-divides-into/)

[Wilhelm Wundt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilhelm-wundt/)

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> [“My financial views are of the most decided character, but they are not likely, perhaps, to increase my popularity with the advocates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/my-financial-views-are-of-the-most-decided-character-but-they-are-not/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-c-grayling/socrates-famously-said-that-the-unconsidered-life-is-not-worth-living/)

[A.C. Grayling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-c-grayling/)

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> [Life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes terribly cruel. Each day should starts with yourself -- with you making up your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/curtybear/life-is-a-journey-often-difficult-and-sometimes-terribly-cruel-each/)

[Curtybear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/curtybear/)

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> [My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexandra-stoddard/my-message-is-that-happiness-is-the-first-principle-of-life-but-you/)

[Alexandra Stoddard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexandra-stoddard/)

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> [“To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ingo-walther/to-create-works-of-art-meant-no-less-to-him-than-to-paint-life-not/)

[Ingo Walther](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ingo-walther/)

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> [What is God? God is the great life that fills the universe; it is the principle of life aswell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/masahisa-goi/what-is-god-god-is-the-great-life-that-fills-the-universe-it-is-the/)

[Masahisa Goi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/masahisa-goi/)

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