Principles Quotes

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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling… — Laozi
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is… — John Dewey
Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is a principle. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude, moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibility… — Sean Covey
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount… — George S. Patton
The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards to be determined… — John L. Lewis
The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by… — Benjamin Rush
Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and… — Benjamin Rush
The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the… — Rudy Giuliani
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm,… — Albert Schweitzer
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The first principle of self-love is that you are not for sale. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Faith-not a faith in one's self or in one's own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right, and which may… — Wallace D. Wattles
A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded. — Abraham Lincoln
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect… — David Hume
It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor. — Ray Kroc
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute… — Thomas Huxley
He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England… — Oscar Wilde
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest. — Walter Savage Landor
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human… — Anatole France
I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices. — Oscar Wilde
The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases. — Epictetus
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams
A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice. — Samuel Johnson
History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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