Principles Quotes · Page 66

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

— Stephen Ambrose

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

— Henry David Thoreau

The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure.

— Douglas Wood

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

— Marianne Williamson

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

— Edward Gibbon

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any…

— James Madison

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Whatever type of football you want to play, if you don't have certain principles you're lost.

— Gianfranco Zola

We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic…

— Immanuel Kant

Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get…

— E. O. Wilson

A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful…

— Anonymous

Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily…

— Mahatma Gandhi

To their duty to God, youth should realize their duty to our country. They should love and honor the Constitution of the…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but…

— Philip Greenspun

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my…

— Davy Crockett

Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what…

— Calvin Coolidge

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it…

— Diane Keaton

I am committed to the First Amendment principles of religious freedom, tolerance, and diversity. Whether Mormon, Methodist, Jewish, or Muslim, Americans should…

— George W. Bush

It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword…

— Maximilien Robespierre

From the beginning of my days, it comes right back down to my parents. Raising all the kids. They really taught me…

— Charlie Brenneman

Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work” will…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Nothing, indeed, could be more unlike the tone of the [Patristic] Fathers, than the cold, passionless, and prudential theology of the eighteenth…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the…

— Thomas Aquinas

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

— Dmitry Medvedev

'Think simple' as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the…

— Patricia Ireland

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

— Horace Greeley

We do have differents principles in life, you have yours and I will respect it, I have mine and it needs to…

— Ying

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

— Klaus Topfer

There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles.

— Kenwa Mabuni

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

— Thomas Keneally

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

— William Lloyd Garrison

My mum's got morals and principles, and I've been brought up with those ideas and beliefs.

— Kate Nash

“An effective life is anchored on the ability to look into your life and see results in line with your creation”

— Sunday Adelaja

I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.

— Ban Ki-moon

Some unifying principles bind all Christians: that God became a man and died for our sins, and that without that sacrifice, all…

— Marco Rubio

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

— George Bernard Shaw

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

— Woodrow Wilson