Adapted Quote by George Packer

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

Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and…

— Stephen Covey

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

— Ray Dalio

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

— Simi Ngr

Principles are what people have instead of God.

— Alexander Schmemann

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up…

— Max Lerner

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 are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

— Multatuli

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

— Christopher Hitchens

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 aren't something you hear much from politicians these days. Have you noticed? Right across the board, leaders, whatever the political coloring, avoid talking…

— Vanessa Redgrave

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