Fluid Quote by Epifanio de los Santos

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

— Ray Dalio

The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the…

— Susan Sontag

Principles only mean something if you stick by them when they are inconvenient.

— Simi Ngr

“Principles are fundamental truths that serve as the foundations for behavior that gets you what you want out of life. They can be applied…

— Ray Dalio

If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are,…

— Clint Smith

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken…

— Red Skelton

If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles.

— Marvin Bower

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep,…

— Stephen Covey

Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

— Multatuli

Principles are the most important thing to me. One of the things I think my dad taught me was there are people who accept…

— Ken Buck

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

Sometimes we forge our own principles and sometimes we accept others' principles, or holistic packages of principles, such as religion and legal systems. While…

— Ray Dalio