Principles Quotes

3711 Principles quotes by 2032 unique authors

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right. — Theodore Hesburgh
The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be… — Zig Ziglar
When a company or an individual compromises one time, whether it's on price or principle, the next compromise is right around the corner. — Zig Ziglar
There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. — Trip Hawkins
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this is… — Louis Sullivan
A free, virtuous, and enlightened people must know full well the great principles and causes upon which their happiness depends. — James Monroe
Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility… — Tom Coburn
My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses and theories. But… — Richard Rohr
What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded — Claude Adrien Helvetius
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world… — Norman Bethune
Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected… — William Hazlitt
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied… — Fulton J. Sheen
No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being. — Daniel Berrigan
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end… — Edith Stein
Because we aren't certain about the effects of GMOs, we must consider one of the guiding principles in science, the precautionary principle. Under this principle, if… — David Suzuki
The Lean Startup isn't just about how to create a more successful entrepreneurial business, it's about what we can learn from those businesses to improve virtually… — Tim O'Reilly
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is… — Leonard Susskind
As a general principle, I should put it that a man's country is where the things he loves are most respected. Circumstances may have prevented… — Albert J. Nock
Income and inheritance taxes imply the denial of private property, and in that are different in principle from all other taxes. The government says to… — Frank Chodorov
Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world… — Berry Gordy
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of… — Voltairine de Cleyre
If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of government… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering… — Cecil B. DeMille
The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to… — Ronald Fisher
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

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