Principles Quotes · Page 63

Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ…

— Dave Barry

Our success is measured by personal beliefs, not by anybody else's standards or beliefs.

— Anonymous

“When you’re under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer’s”

— Sunday Adelaja

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.

— Mason Cooley

The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice.

— Richard A. Falk

Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.

— William Cowper

Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.

— Alan Casden

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending…

— Bertrand Russell

I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know…

— Raymond Kelly

Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for…

— Noam Chomsky

I organized tax resistance in 1965, with a friend. I kept at it for about ten years. I don't see it as…

— Noam Chomsky

Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four…

— Jim Evans

What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a…

— James Madison

Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our children, our grandchildren, our students, our young athletes. We need to be pouring leadership principles into them constantly, and teaching, and…

— Pat Williams

The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then…

— Wendell Berry

Free from public debt, at peace with all the world, and with no complicated interests to consult in our intercourse with foreign…

— Andrew Jackson

Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on…

— Daniel Webster

Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging…

— Mary Hays

Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No,…

— W. W. Sawyer

Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and…

— Leonhard Euler

God has given us a revelation in regard to celestial marriage. I did not make it. He has told us certain things…

— John Taylor

“It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.”

— Edmund Burke

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

— Stewart Udall

One of the principles upon which the E.U. is built is the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.

— Frans Timmermans

In an era of magic conveniently available at the touch of a button, new music should on principle represent something akin to…

— Helmut Lachenmann

I don't have all the answers. I have a lot of questions. And I have some basic principles.

— Charles Koch

[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.

— Nat Hentoff

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater…

— Andrew Carnegie

I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.

— Hillary Clinton

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

— John Wesley

“To my horror principles have wormed their way into [the] fabric of my being.”

— Steve Toltz

That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

— P. J. O'Rourke

It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military.

— Wesley Clark

Each time we see and are touched by the expression of some eternal principle, we catch a sweet glimpse of some aspect…

— Guy Finley

Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.

— Ron Paul

The mantle of leadership for promoting the principles of peace has fallen to America. We didn't ask for it. But it's an…

— Mitt Romney

As the owner of the company, I'm always focusing on how my company can do more for less. And it's one of…

— Robert Kiyosaki