Principles Quotes

“In the long run principles are just more important than expediency.”

Alex Ferguson
When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.

Epictetus

Lack is more in means, than in principles.

Napoleon Bonaparte
- Principles
- Means
- Lack
The experienced illustrator subscribes to the principle of the application of the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. Should inspiration whisk down your chimney, be at your table. The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.

Wallace Tripp
There are some inordinate desires before which the firmest principles must give way, and which so pervert our moral sense as to render us incapable of judging between right and wrong.

Emile Gaboriau
When you teach, you learn." "And I really don't go for religions of any kind. ...I reject them all....There were principles I thought were very important.

Helen Suzman
- Important
- Kind
- Teach
One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that they will not believe the method will work until they see it for themselves.

Watts Humphrey
Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

Eugene Delacroix
- Music
- Learn
- Color