First Principle Quotes

56 quotes by 49 authors

• While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed… — Teresa of Avila
• The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket. — Robert A. Heinlein
• The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. — Robert Collier
• Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think. — Helen Keller
• The first principle of self-love is that you are not for sale. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
• Note that charity is given only to those who seek it, only to those who earnestly pray for it, only to those who are disciples… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
• The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use. — Gustave Eiffel
• To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare… — Thomas Jefferson
• Fasting is the first principle of medicine. — Rumi
• The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is… — Stephen Covey
• First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events. — Marie Curie
• It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who… — Tom DeLay
• Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity — John Nelson Darby
• Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary… — Thomas Frank
• I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and… — Constance Markievicz
• Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living. — Watchman Nee
• You may have been taught that the mind (the spirit, the brain) is a very difficult thing to know about. This is the first principle… — L. Ron Hubbard
• To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the feet of any wise man:… — Joe Biden
• The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success. — Napoleon Hill

Who Wrote These First Principle Quotes

49 authors contributed a total of 56 First Principle Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 First Principle Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 2 First Principle Quotes by Richard P. Feynman
• 2 First Principle Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
• 2 First Principle Quotes by Rumi
• 2 First Principle Quotes by Alexandra Stoddard
• 2 First Principle Quotes by L. Ron Hubbard
• 1 First Principle Quote by Jeffrey R. Holland
• 1 First Principle Quote by John Bytheway
• 1 First Principle Quote by Charles A. Beard
• 1 First Principle Quote by Ken Blanchard
• 1 First Principle Quote by Mu Xin
• 1 First Principle Quote by Winston Churchill
• 1 First Principle Quote by Teresa of Avila
• 1 First Principle Quote by William E. Gladstone
• 1 First Principle Quote by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1 First Principle Quote by Walter Lippmann
• 1 First Principle Quote by Robert Collier
• 1 First Principle Quote by Mary Matalin
• 1 First Principle Quote by Helen Keller
• 1 First Principle Quote by Stan Musial
• 1 First Principle Quote by Harbhajan Singh Yogi
• 1 First Principle Quote by George Soros
• 1 First Principle Quote by Joseph B. Wirthlin
• 1 First Principle Quote by Adlai E. Stevenson
• 1 First Principle Quote by Gustave Eiffel