Famous Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich August von Hayek

There exists no third principle for the organisation of the economics process which can be rationally chosen to achieve any desirable ends, in addition to either a functioning market in which nobody can conclusively determine how well-off particular groups or individuals will be, or a central direction where a group organised for power determines it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Jon Postel

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

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.

Sherry Argov

Relationship Principle 11 It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.

They talk about the f------ mob; at least we've got principles!

There were things that we did were taught because of the biblical principles.

Sallust

But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle. [Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]

Mike Krzyzewski

Always get back to your core principles.

Rachel Field

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

L. Ron Hubbard

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

Stefan Molyneux

There's great peace in surrendering to principles

Swami Vivekananda

The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.

Stephen Covey

Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!

Stephen Covey

Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.

Stephen Covey

While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.

Stephen Covey

Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.

Stephen Covey

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

Stephen Covey

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

Sigmund Freud

It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over the course of mental processes. If such a dominance existed, the immense majority of our mental processes would have to be accompanied by pleasure or to lead to pleasure, whereas universal experience completely contradicts any such conclusion.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.

Susan Sontag

I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.

Robert Kiyosaki

Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.

Is it an uphill battle? Absolutely. But important principles are stake.

Tristan Tzara

In principle, I am against principles.

Martin Amis

When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of pleasure. Some pleasure is difficult. It should be for the reader as well as the writer. But it has to be pleasure.

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.

Rene Descartes

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

Thomas Sowell

The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.

Thomas Sowell

To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.

Sarah Dessen

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.