Principles Quotes

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

Love, Strength, Business

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Abraham Lincoln

Important, May, Inflexible

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey

Life, Change, Choice

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain

Real, Except, Force

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Love, Strength, Business

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Conquest

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
Margaret Thatcher

Values, Process, Seems

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Both, Values, Soon

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama

Islam, Justice, Human

Obey the principles without being bound by them.
Bruce Lee

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Thomas S. Monson

Courage, Humility, Living

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Good, Great, Character

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo

Change, Keep, Opinions

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Life, Good, Men

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce

Politics, Public, Advantage

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert Camus

Love, Die, Impossible

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.
Plato

Poverty, Community, Nor

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand Russell

Liberty, Tyranny, Exercise

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Thomas Paine

Cannot, Soldiers, Army

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, Government, Successful

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
Charles R. Swindoll

Family, Living, Place

I think Bible principles are principles for life.
Joel Osteen

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel Osteen

God, Try, Speak

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams

Government, Revolution, American

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Failure, Forget, Ideals

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Ann Landers

Love, Marriage, Good

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