Principles Quotes

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Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue. — Sinclair Lewis
If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed.… — Ayrton Senna
In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of… — Christine O'Donnell
It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from… — Aung San Suu Kyi
Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid… — Andrei Tarkovsky
When I was trying to popularize the concept of the Internet - ten or 15 years ago - I came up with this concept of… — Steve Case
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth… — Herbert Hoover
A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles… — Theodore Parker
Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at… — James Madison
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he… — Herbert Kalmus
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be… — John Berger
Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity.… — Abraham Lincoln
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy's… — Herman Melville
In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a… — Tony Robbins
What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of Creation versus scarcity… — Rebecca Adamson
A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure consciousness. Selfish desires… — Morihei Ueshiba
In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship — Max Lucado
The Dilbert Principle: People are idiots. — Scott Adams
I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of… — Scott Adams

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