Best 2656 quotes in «principles quotes» category

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.

I believe the world grows near its end, yet is neither old nor decayed, nor will ever perish upon the ruins of its own principles.

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.

I can guarantee people, then, that if they learn, discover, understand, explore, and apply the same principles that I learned, that success is predictable.

I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study - more important than ever before in these days of uncertainties, when men and woman are apt to decide questions from the standpoint of expediency rather than the eternal principles laid down by God, Himself.

I can't tell what god will do because I'm not God. I can only take you back to biblical principle.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of ones education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory and mathematical principles. I decided to use those principles and designed a work that is encoded.

I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.

I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

I discovered that success has very little to do with education or race or disposition; it has more to do with principles and following those principles.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest.

I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.

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

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.

I don't have all the answers. I have a lot of questions. And I have some basic principles.

I don't think of spiritual principle as a struggle. I think of life lived without spiritual principles as a struggle.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

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

I don't have principles. I have nerves.

I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and upon the principles of faith which are calculated to put him in possession of the power of God, how much greater will be his faculties for obtaining knowledge. . . .

If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse. There is no middle ground

If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider application does not furnish any proof that it ought not to be so applied.

If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times.

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw over your principles. Principles for principles' sake -that is not wisdom; that is obstinacy. Principles should be fluid because life is fluid.

I feel that if people investigate the emergence of government, of State power - if they examine the logic of State power historically, and more specifically in the United States - they will find that the concept of limited government is not tenable once they adopt some type of libertarian principle.

If, for example, one day Ki Bagoes Hadikoesoemo becomes the Indonesian Head of State, and dies, won't his child be [his replacement]? Then because of that I do not adhere to the principle of monarchism.

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me — nothing to make my friends proud of my memory — but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility, when their existence belongs to the future, does not change the nature of the possible in any way; that nature remains unchanged; and the knowledge of the realisation of one of several possibilities does not yet effect that realisation. This is likewise one of the fundamental principles of the Law of Moses concerning which there is no doubt nor any dispute.

If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall have authority over the weaker party, it may be answered that the most despotic governments in the world rest upon that very principle, viz.: the consent of the strongest party.

If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.

If it's a principle, it's a winner. If it's a tactic, it's a loser.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

If I've learned any one lesson from life, it's this: If you don't stand for something, you will stand for anything.

If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.

If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same principles – but you’d be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature that.

If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.

If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.