Principles Quotes

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Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life. — Stephen Covey
Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of… — Ronald Takaki
Real democracy is only possible when people truly imbibe democratic principles and respect ethical values above everything else. — Nirmala Srivastava
A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of… — John Robert Seeley
Softly and kindly remind yourself, ''I cannot own anything.'' It is a valuable thought to keep in mind as you struggle to improve your financial… — Wayne Dyer
More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis involving sickness or… — Ezra Taft Benson
Weak or wicked, great or small, in men and in animal, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but… — Swami Vivekananda
Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a… — Rabindranath Tagore
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. — Thomas Jefferson
As the lesser is always found within the greater, so this principle holds true with regards to time and the eternal. — Guy Finley
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself… — Stephen Covey
If all that you see, do, measure and discover is the will of a deity, then ideas can never be proven wrong, you have no… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles. — Dennis Kucinich
The Earth Charter is important as an expression of the commitment of people throughout the Earth to evoke their own deepest moral, spiritual and ethical… — Maurice Strong
In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him — Ariel Sharon
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of… — Thomas Jefferson
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the… — Bernard Baruch
The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge… — Enrico Fermi
Most great fortunes are built slowly. They are based on the principle of compound interest, what Albert Einstein called, "The greatest power in the universe." — Brian Tracy
This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that… — John F. Kennedy

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