Principles Quotes · Page 49

The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do…

— Steve Chabot

I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.

— Camille Paglia

In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.

— Radhanath Swami

I guess if people all followed the basic principles of their own religions, they would love everybody instead of hating half the…

— Al Jaffee

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

— Giotto di Bondone

I would never try to motivate anyone to follow me. I would motivate him to follow certain principles.

— Jim Brown

We're in a fight for our principles and our first responsibility is to live by them.

— George W Bush

The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by…

— Nathan Myhrvold

That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of…

— James Madison

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care…

— George Soros

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

This is in a way the most important thing about soul is that it's a kind of principle which mediates between the…

— Peter Adamson

In all matters but particularly in architecture, that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The way Elon talks about this is that you always need to start with the first principles of a problem. What are…

— Ashlee Vance

Actually I did not invent the seven habits, they are universal principles and most of what I wrote about is just common…

— Stephen Covey

Deep down, everything boils down ("au fond tout se ramène", Fr.) to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and…

— African Spir

The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty…

— Paul Feyerabend

For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by…

— Christopher Hitchens

Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows…

— George Henry Lewes

An effective leader is willing to think about what's happening and how to understand what's going on. Facilitating flow and making others…

— Diane Dreher

We are involved in an intense battle. It is a battle between right and wrong, between truth and error, between the design…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his…

— Brandon Sanderson

Transition is one of the hardest times for defenses to pick up on guys and to match up and play through their…

— Alex Caruso

Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.

— John Doolittle

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

— Dennis Kucinich

There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion…

— Mao Zedong

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

— Marie Curie

Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

— Juvenal

The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and…

— Warren Bennis

Symmetry principles are principles governing the laws of nature that say those laws look the same if you change your point of…

— Steven Weinberg

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles…

— William Feather

Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for…

— David S. Baxter

France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded.

— Francis Parkman

We manifest character when self - sacrifice for the sake of our principles becomes more important than compromise for the sake of…

— Myles Munroe

My values are the basic foundations of my life; betraying them means betraying my own life.

— Anonymous

'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.

— R. C. Sproul