Principles Quotes

If you want to know what a person is truly made of, don't rush to define them until you meet them and see the principles they live by.

~ Hafiz

The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed.

~ Tiffany Madison

To me, patriotism means dedication to the principles on which the country was founded and a willingness to stand firm and fight for these principles regardless of what the government says or does

~ Richard J. Maybury

An advanced human rights friendly Constitution is fine and well - but what good is it if it is not put into practice? The government says it cherishes the principles in the SA Constitution, and yet acts in a manner which cannot be reconciled with that very Constitution.

~ Christina Engela

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You are constantly being trained to be heroic only in the service of your masters - only in slaughter and sacrifice and subjugation. But there is no heroism in serving your masters. Real heroism is questioning why you have masters at all.All these stories, all these fantasies, all these superpowers - are designed to steal heroism from you, to make it impossible, fantastical, remote, and unachievable - and make you useful to your masters (as a hit man, if needed). What is the opposite of this?The opposite of fantasy is philosophy. The opposite of mythology is integrity. And integrity is truth in action.

~ Stefan Molyneux

To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

~ Mike Gayle

In short, do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.

~ Steve Goodier

Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can’t sow lies and reap truth.

~ Katina Ferguson

There is a quality about women who choosemen sparingly,it appears in their walkin their eyesin their laughter and in theirgentle hearts.

~ Charles Bukowski

It is our job as parents, to instill principles and values in our children. So that when they depart from you, those principles and values won’t depart from them. Mallory Bullard, a street soldier from the old school.

~ Drexel Deal

Only wise men can differentiate between what is a matter of pride and what is a principle of dignity.

~ Sameh Elsayed

I have determined, the Almighty God being my help and my shield, yet to suffer, if frail life might continue so long, even until the moss shall grow on my eyebrows, rather than to violate my faith and my principles.

~ John Bunyan

Who really want to succeed follow the principles of his mentor with determination and action.

~ Kishore Bansal

Everyone knows the principles of Beautiful life but,only few of them have opportunities to follow them.

~ Kartik Mehta

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

~ Leo Szilard

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.

~ James Davison Hunter

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

~ George Packer

A goal lacking a sense of ethics is a goal that lacks any sense.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another’s value. It is easier to define yourself as ‘not that,’ rather than do an actual accounting of your own qualities and put them on the scale.

~ Jessa Crispin

If we dare examine our decisions, we will see our values woven in and through every single one of them. Therefore, it would do us well to take an occasional peek to insure that our values remain at their peak.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values that brook no compromise, and I would count among them integrity, fairness, and the avoidance of cruelty. But I have never accepted the argument that principle is compromised by judging each situation on its own merits, with due appreciation of the idiosyncrasy of human motivation and fallibility.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

How many close encounters with death can one person survive? At the age of 21, I had surpassed more than 10 such close encounters with death, which began when I was but 5 years of age. This enemy who has been hotly pursuing me for more than 16 years has no shame to his game at all. At least with me there were certain things I would’ve never done, and knowingly hurt a child was just one of them.

~ Drexel Deal

God has created the world to be run by His principles.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not anything can be studied as a science, without our being in possession of the principles upon which it is founded; and as this is the case with Christian theology, it is therefore the study of nothing.

~ Thomas Paine

Rather than majoring in frivolities, women should be educated in useful subjects and 'be furnished with a stock of ideas, and principles, and qualifications, and habits, ready to be applied and appropriated…' - Hannah More

~ Karen Swallow Prior

But what [Orwell] illustrates, by his commitment to language as the partner of truth, is that 'views' do not really count; that it matters not what you think, but how you think; and that politics are relatively unimportant, while principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

~ Christopher Hitchens

In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and the view only taken cognizance of. This will be the millennium of Science.

~ Edward Forbes

For Thousands To Come To Christ, We Must Employ Kingdom Principles

~ Sunday Adelaja

Don’t let your principles sit idle on a plaque. Bring them to life.

~ Cheryl A. Bachelder

The foundation that my parents and grandparents instilled in me is unyielding, especially the principle that teaches me to keep God first in all I do.

~ Carlos Wallace

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed, but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

~ Charlotte Brontë

I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best born. My duty will be to develop these germs: surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office.

~ Charlotte Brontë

God gave us his word of salvation, for us to become the agents of His principles and the doers of His will, His judgment on earth

~ Sunday Adelaja

In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough