Principles Quotes

• 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
  • Philosophy
  • Capitalism
  • Regard

• For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any certain way attain to the true causes, he will adopt whatever suppositions enable the motions to be computed correctly from the principles of geometry for the future as well as for the past.

  

  Andreas Osiander
  • Principles
  • Geometry
  • Astronomer

• Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences when we ignore them. But because these principles apply to everyone, whether or not they are aware, this limitation is universal. And the more we know of correct principles, the greater is our personal freedom to act wisely.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Natural
  • Harmony
  • Negative

• Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.

  

  Tim Johnson
  • Country
  • Air
  • Commitment

• Sometimes a mentor has to be reminded of the principles he has tried to instill in others.

  

  Stephen Henderson
  • Principles
  • Mentor
  • Instill

• The principles of the United States Constitution are, because of Senator Byrd, still the heartbeat of the US Senate.

  

  David C. Hardesty, Jr.
  • Because
  • Still
  • Heartbeat

• The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Technology
  • Development
  • Principles

• Despite our founding principles and the many ways our constitution has protected individual liberties, we do, let's admit it, have a long history of shutting people out--african americans, women, gays and lesbians, people with disabilities--and throughout our history, we have found too many ways to divide and exclude people from their ownership of the law and protection under the law.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Constitution
  • Principles
  • Liberties

• One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Peace
  • Principles
  • Nations

• If we lack confidence in each other, and be jealous of each other, our peace will be destroyed. If we cultivate the principles of unshaken confidence in each other, our joy will be full.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Peace
  • Confidence
  • Jealous

• 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
  • Mind
  • Attitude
  • Littles

• I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns are good and bad but they don't have principles, constitutions. You wouldn't go to war for your town.

  

  Steve Martin
  • War
  • Constitution
  • Cheer

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

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Principles
  • Relations
  • Individuals

• 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
  • Powerful
  • Demand
  • Mystical

• You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Discipline
  • Foundation
  • Roots

• You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to your principles; morals are relative.

  

  Ranveer Singh
  • Winning
  • Moral
  • Needs

• One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Men
  • Greatest
  • Principles

• We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Party
  • Principles
  • Popularity

• Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Vision
  • Values
  • Bases

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

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Harmony
  • Behavior
  • Negative

• 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
  • Friends
  • Proud
  • Enemies

• 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
  • Persons
  • Term
  • Efficiency

• I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

  

  Stewart Udall
  • Children
  • Generations
  • Return

• Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Photography
  • Album
  • Zillions of children

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