Browsing Topic Best Principles Quotes

Anybody who changes his principle depending on whom he is dealing with is not fit to lead.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

If you’re willing to sacrifice all principles, all sanity and all morality to get rid of Trump, what exactly is the point of getting rid of Trump?

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

The most important quality of leadership is intellectual honesty. The reality principle – the ability to see the world as it really is, not as you wish it were.

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

I have lived my life according to this principle: If I’m afraid of it, then I must do it.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny … it is the light that guides your way.

It’s not crazy to think we can create a world in which humanitarian principles replace soulless economics as the ordering principle for our civilization. What’s genuinely insane is to think humanity will survive another hundred years if we do not.

Presence always wins out over principles.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God’s question and call.

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

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

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

The First Amendment isn’t about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying into practice of religious principles and beliefs and convictions.

Today in many western countries, nobody dares question the Holocaust whose nature is questionable. According to the reports I have received, in America if people decide to write something against homosexuality on the basis of psychological and sociological principles, they will be prevented from publishing their work. How is it that these people feel obligated to respect freedom of expression?

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.