Best 2656 quotes in «principles quotes» category

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

I've got to put forward a very strong conservative voice, advocate for conservative values and advocate for principle in politics to restore faith in politics.

I've governed from a consistent set of principles

I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.

I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person.

I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

I want to lead the Progressive Conservative Party, a party that will promote true conservative values and principles. I can tell you right now, I am not the merger candidate. I am not interested in institutional marriages with other parties.

I want to take human rights out of their box. I want to show the relevance of the universal principles of human rights to the basic needs of health, security, education and equality.

I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.

I was born and raised a Christian and I still adhere to those principles.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible.

I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

I would describe my style of songwriting as classic. I learned very early on and have stuck to the core principles of song structure regardless of which genre I'm writing in.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances

Leadership Principle: As hunger increases, excuses decrease.

Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.

Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

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

Liberals exploit weakness; conservatives offer strength.

Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding 'more' while never defining 'enough.' The predictable result is that they always get more, and it's never enough.

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

Life is the expression of tone. In that sentence is the basic principle of Chiropractic.

Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each.

Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Lincoln is quoted more often than he's understood, and he understood that the founding principle of our nation is, in fact, the Declaration of Independence.

Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way, look at others in a different way. This goes way beyond just making statements or manifesting principles.

Literature is conscious mythology: as society develops, its mythical stories become structural principles of story-telling, its mythical concepts, sun-gods and the like, become habits of metaphoric thought. In a fully mature literary tradition the writerenters intoa structure of traditional stories and images.

Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way required by the immediate situation in which you are. Such a way of living leaves you free, not ruled tyrannically by imposed regulations which may not at all suit the particular case.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling

I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

I would like a practical president, but I would like to be able to have his practicality based on principles, and not just who - I mean the room with.