Top 1200 Principle Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.
We will do whatever the government tells us to do, which is a critically important principle of the Chinese market economy, and there is nothing more for discussion about it.
America has always understood this principle of the economy - that everyone can benefit when everyone competes.
In Lebanon, there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat. In principle, I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him.
The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.
Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.
We must stand on principle and practicality, and we should be very clear that a policy aimed at driving out 10 or 11 million people is not a good one.
The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.
For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.
For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.
The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.
God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.
You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle?
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
The English follow the principle that when one lies, it should be a big lie, and one should stick to it.
Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.
There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.
I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.
Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.
Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.
There is a group dynamic and a team behaves in principle like a team of horses: there are always leaders.
On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.
Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.
In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.
Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.
Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.
To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world
"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.
Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.
Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
Tied to the value of the person is the principle of servanthood. We value what we freely serve.
In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
We must never settle for harmony at the expense of holiness, nor for peace at the expense of principle.
Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.
There is no guiding principle, because the work that is created in collaborations should be created from its own principles.
The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom.
It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.
America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.
The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'
There is this overlying principle of a two-to-one carb-to-protein ratio, so that is first and foremost. I try and retain that throughout the whole day with everything I eat and drink.
I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work.
One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.
Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.
The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle.
I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.
There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing.
The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
Listening is a prerequisite for action. Listening is a principle for living Jewishly in a globalised world
The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers.
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.
We must stand up for the principle of parliamentary democracy and not allow the government's failure in the Brexit process to be a licence for the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without an agreement.
I can't tell what god will do because I'm not God. I can only take you back to biblical principle.
Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us
