Happiness Quote by Red Skelton

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

“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

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

— Ray Dalio

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 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 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 things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

— Multatuli

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

— Henry A. Kissinger

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

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

— Marvin Bower

Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game…

— Ray Dalio

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