Famous Quotes & Sayings

Haile Selassie

Place principle above all else.

Kathleen Parker

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

To get salvation we must not only do some things, but everything which God has commanded...The object with me is to obey and teach others to obey God in just what he tells us to do. It mattereth not whether the principle is popular or unpopular; I will always maintain a true principle even if I stand alone in it.

Myles Munroe

A principle is a truth that is established by God that can never be changed.

Hillary Clinton

I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.

Herbert Marcuse

The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.

Jack Canfield

The principles always work if you work the principles.

Jean Baudrillard

The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

For a lot of recreational athletes, the principle is very important. It's even more important as you age.

Peter Singer

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

Plotinus

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

Mike Krzyzewski

Always get back to your core principles.

Rachel Field

You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

John Maynard Keynes

The central principle of investment is to go contrary to the general opinion, on the grounds that if everyone agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.

John Lancaster Spalding

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

Katharine Anthony

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

John Keats

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

John Searle

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

Paul Ryan

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

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.

Joseph Brodsky

I don't have principles. I have nerves.

Noam Chomsky

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

Oscar Wilde

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

Lucretia Mott

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

R. Buckminster Fuller

The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles

Nelson Mandela

You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

Margaret Thatcher

We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.

Oscar Wilde

Circumstances should never alter principles!

Julian Bond

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

Kevin Pietersen

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

Ken Blanchard

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.

John Owen

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

Sherry Argov

Relationship Principle 10 You can tell how much someone respects you by how much he respects your opinion. If he doesn't respect your opinion, he won't respect you.