Principles Quotes

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We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others… — Stephen Covey
Humility is the mother of all virtues. Humility says we are not in control, principles are in control, therefore we submit ourselves to principles. Pride… — Stephen Covey
If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results… — Stephen Covey
Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness… — Stephen Covey
Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences when… — Stephen Covey
Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent… — Stephen Covey
There are principles that govern human effectiveness - natural laws in the human dimension that are just as real, just as unchanging and unarguably there… — Stephen Covey
Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors. — Stephen Covey
The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible. — George Polya
SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have… — Thomas Jefferson
It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half… — B. C. Forbes
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during… — Christopher Dawson
I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think… — Jonas Salk
Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will… — Joshua Reynolds
In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the… — Rene Descartes
We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is… — Chris Hayes
The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to,… — Clay Shirky
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. — Marilyn Ferguson
The socialist parties of all countries are duty bound to fight energetically for the implementation of universal women's suffrage which is to be vigorously advocated… — Clara Zetkin
A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could… — David Remnick

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