Principles Quotes

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We strive to hire and retain only those who embrace our MBM® Guiding Principles, which encompass integrity, compliance, value creation, Principled Entrepreneurship, customer focus, knowledge,… — Charles Koch
An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude — Charles Caleb Colton
'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself… — Michel de Montaigne
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you… — Seneca the Younger
To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will-to-life. At the same time the man who has become a… — Albert Schweitzer
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to… — C. D. Broad
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially… — Bill Bowerman
They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with… — Vladimir Putin
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is .… — Henri Frederic Amiel
The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with… — Allan Sandage
A further aspect I should like to discuss is what I call the practice of infinite escape clauses. I believe we developed this practice to… — Unknown Author
Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little. — Unknown Author
We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion, or their national… — John Ashcroft
The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also.... In the frail and perishable… — Pope Leo XIII
If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle:… — Albert Einstein
Man can learn self-discipline without becoming ascetic; he can be wise without waiting to be old; he can be influential without waiting for status. Man… — Neal A. Maxwell
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of… — Margaret Chase Smith
My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. — Victoria Woodhull
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed… — Thornton Wilder
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises… — Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the custom prevalent among… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle. — George Gaylord Simpson
The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided… — Herbert Butterfield
God's Word is your owner's manual for life. It contains principles for health, finance, marriage, other relationships, business, and much more. — Rick Warren

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