Principles Quotes · Page 27

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

— William Cowper

if we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything.

— Irene Dunne

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

— John Marston

We believe in the fundamental principles of the European economy.

— Vladimir Putin

Whatever my faults, I have some principles.

— Nigel Farage

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To afford food is employment, to afford principles is success.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

— Albert Einstein

God is not a respecter of persons but a respecter of principles that are in his word.

— Matthew Ashimolowo

I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid…

— Moby

It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

— Frank Herbert

Russian aggression against Ukraine is an act that tramples on the vision and principles of the U.N. Charter.

— Fumio Kishida

Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's…

— Alan I. Leshner

It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

— Ray Kroc

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

— Austin Phelps

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself…

— James Madison

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the…

— Dale Carnegie

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating…

— William Wilberforce

We who hold his (Wolfe Tone) principles believe that any movement which would successfully grapple with the problem of national freedom must…

— James Connolly

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of…

— Adam Smith

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity,…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I think that [John Kelly] will bring law and order. And what I'm hoping for with this is that the restoration of…

— Steve King

As human beings we are all the same. We have this marvelous intelligence, which sometimes creates problems for us, but when influenced…

— Dalai Lama

Mathematics is a presuppositionless science. To found it I do not need God, as does Kronecker, or the assumption of a special…

— David Hilbert

It is a good principle in science not to believe any 'fact'---however well attested---until it fits into some accepted frame of reference.…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Pope Francis has taught us by his example how we can witness with our lives and actions to our faith and moral…

— John I. Jenkins

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society…

— Helen Keller

It's a time when a lot of principle virtues are being tested. Do we still believe in the truth? Do we still…

— George Saunders

If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that…

— Edmund Burke

[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even…

— Hudson Gurney

“Live your life for the advancement of the Kingdom”

— Sunday Adelaja

Sacrifice money rather than principle.

— Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

“It’s either you are converting your time or not”

— Sunday Adelaja

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

— Anne Carson

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

— Confucius

I am a man of principle, and one of my basic principles is flexibility.

— Everett Dirksen

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

— Ivan Klíma

“Break free from the contract of employment”

— Sunday Adelaja