Principles Quotes
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.
Stephen Covey -
Sometimes a mentor has to be reminded of the principles he has tried to instill in others.
Stephen Henderson
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Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.
Steve Daines -
Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.
Edmund Pendleton -
I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
John Calvin -
The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.
Thomas Sowell -
Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.
Stephen Covey -
A man must not only stand for the right principles, but he must also fight for them. Those who fight for principle can be proud of the friends they've gained and the enemies they've earned.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
Seneca the Younger -
Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!
Stephen Covey -
In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]
Mikhail Gorbachev -
Why should we believe in God? — We hate Christianity and Christians. Even the best of them must be regarded as our worst enemies. They preach love of one's neighbor, and pity, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is a hinderance to the revolution. Down with love of one's neighbor; what we want is hatred.
Gerald Burton Winrod -
The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.
Terence McKenna -
I hope my kids understand that they're not operating in a normal world. And yet there are principles they have to adhere to that are normal - like decency, choosing between right and wrong, and honesty. That's important stuff, whether you're flying first-class or not.
Tom Hanks
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And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
Morris West -
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey -
Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences.
Stephen Covey -
Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.
Stephen Covey -
We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.
Ezra Taft Benson -
In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.
Carolyn Maloney
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The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.
Terence McKenna -
Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
Stephen Covey -
Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.
Stephen Covey -
While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing with people.
Stephen Covey