Principles Quotations | Page 4

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to be realised by the educator is that he really has before him an entirely new soul, a real self whose first and chief right is to think over the things with which he comes in contact.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Sound principles and eternal truths need to be frequently repeated so that we do not forget their application nor become dissuaded by other arguments.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is inspired and that it is based on principles that are timeless and universal. This is the reason why 95% of all written constitutions throughout the world are modeled after our Constitution.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.

The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

Spiritual principles do not change, but we do.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy - nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

Russia does not and cannot have any political choice but democracy. I want to say, and even stress, that we share those universal democratic principles taken around the whole world.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

We look to our pastors and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kinds to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is built: honesty, charity, integrity and family.

One of the most important principles I've learned is, every so often, just drop everything. Stop racing from one party to the next.

I wish to stress that the United Nations is eager to be at your side in the efforts to resolve the problems of your country and the region on the basis of universal principles of peace, justice and human rights,

I was taught that in this country if you work hard, you can do anything, and I don't see a lot of those principles in children's books today.

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

Obviously we want to find common ground, we want a successful summit, but we're not giving away our principles in order to get there,

Morals, principles and laws are when faith is reduced to standards and those standards basically just bind us, and we become prejudicial, racist, self-serving when we're guided by these laws... When a developed country uses Christianity in its policies, in government, in maintaining corporate wealth, that's a bastardized rendering of a faith.

Politics must not undermine the principles and standards we apply to every judicial nomination.

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles

Never again can the Republican Party simply write off entire segments of our society because we assume our principles have limited appeal. They have broad appeal. We need to be larger than that.

New Jersey plays the same way we do. It's a team concept. Everybody touches the ball. The principles are the same.

My fundamental belief there is that we need to be careful as we do our business to ensure that we respect the principles of democracy, which include being open and honest with the press.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal, but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or wretchedness.

The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show with complacency how an enlightened regard for themselves constantly prompts them to assist each other, and inclines them willingly to sacrifice a portion of their time and property to the welfare of the state.

Loyalty and respect for contribution do matter. They are principles I seek to uphold.

Liberals have been committed to the principles of human rights, international stability, and international justice. They have also sought international solutions to those problems which have demanded collective attention.

Sir, I once knew a young man who, having visited countries where liberty and equality were the rule, then decided to defend these principles in his own country. Do you know what happened to him? ... He was hanged.

She extended those principles of the founding fathers in a way that applies to all of us,

She gave the essence of civility to the struggle for equality in this country and kept alive the principles of fairness, equity and justice for which she, her husband, and their partners in struggle stood. The true measure of achievement is how many others we lift up along with us, and Mrs. King more than met that measure.

She has made his teachings something that will live for a long time. She took the King philosophy seriously and she worked at it. And it was not a thing for show. It was for helping them instill in their own lives the principles that he had taught.

She has no vision, no guiding principles for our state. This lack of clear vision and principle is what propels her to be on all sides of many issues, to say one thing, then do another or do nothing.

She has been a forceful advocate of conservative legal principles and judicial restraint throughout her career.

Making a wise choice is like buying a sensible shoe: You don't have to do it all the time, but there are times when it makes sense. Families who talk about these basic principles end up on top financially.

We were coming off a loss, and it was important to get back to Delaware principles and playing our defensive roles. One of our goals is rebounding. We knew they'd shoot a lot of threes and if they miss the ball would come out long, so we had to attack the boards.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

Perhaps the most important principle on which the economy of a manufacture depends, is the division of labour amongst the persons who perform the work.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

To protect the home of the brave and the land of the free, brave men and women of our armed forces daily defend this nation's principles of Freedom and Liberty".

Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.

There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

The only principle in art is to copy what you see. Dealers in aesthetics to the contrary, every other method is fatal.

[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.

I don't believe in war, I believe in the principle of deterrence.

If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life.

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

We must reprogram ourselves to understand that cooperation is a higher principle than competition.

The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.

I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay. I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness. Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

In the great Declaration of our principles, it didn't say that all men are created equal 'if you so choose.' It said that all are created equal by the power and the will of God, and that we must respect their rights as we respect that will.

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

I have an obligation to fight and to fight hard for what I believe in and for the progressive principles that we are supposed to defend.

Frank Gilbreth was a well-known time management expert. And he applied the same principles he used in his job to keep his family organized.

Four justices of the Florida State Supreme Court have distorted the judicial process into nothing more than a mechanism for providing Mr. Gore with the victory he was unable to win November 7. This ruling not only contradicts, but assaults, the most basic principles of jurisprudence,

From the very beginning, the primary appeal of macrobiotics for me was that it was something I could try by myself. I had never sought, nor wanted... help in trying to understand the principles of yin and yang.

From the very start, I thought there were four key principles that the agency should focus on: driving private investment, driving innovation, promoting competition, and protecting consumers.

Fundamentally, you can say we have a blank sheet of paper on the table right now, but with the principles and criteria on which we will appoint these people.

For right now, we are operating under the correct principles. We hear an awful lot of exceptional cases. This is a big system and there are many ways through it.

'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

If budget planning requires gathering information from people who may not always have the incentive to disclose that information, then the principles of mechanism design can definitely be of use in such planning.

I believe that you can combine biblical principles and good business practices. I testified before Congress ... on how to be honest and successful at the same time.

I believe there is substantial doubt as to how he would apply fundamental principles of constitutional law.

But we are trying to work with it, and we are really trying to reach something with it. We are setting principles, but being in general principles doesn't mean you create ambiguities and lead the way to confusion and lead the way to problems in the future.

I don't care how complicated they make the game seem, it's really based on two principles and those are blocking and tackling.

China will, as always, abide by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, actively participate in international affairs and fulfill its international obligations, and work with other countries to build a new international political and economic order that is fair and rational,

To exchange principles for popularity might be a temptation. It's at the core of populism. We must offer something else.

Her journalism represents the best principles in the field.

We then had a six hour face to face meeting with one of the principles from a company that we use as consultants for this project. He has a Masters Degree in Nuclear Physics and a Masters Degree in Health Physics. He holds a Comprehensive Board Certification in Health Physics. There are approximately 250 people in the world with this certification and less than 50 are available for consulting work. When it comes to radiation safety, the effects of radiation on humans and radiation detection, this man is truly in a class by himself.

I have strong doubts that this organization will be able to transform itself in the near future and abide by the same monitoring principles both in the West and the East.

I admire Ai Weiwei for his art and his activism. His art is beautiful in form, and in function embodies the principles of populism and social consciousness I aspire to in my own practice.

We must continue to unwaveringly implement the basic principles of peaceful reunification and 'one country, two systems'.

We must deal with the new situation with the right mixture of firm adherence to basic principles and creativity to meet a rapidly evolving reality.