Top 1200 Guiding Principles Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The saving principles and doctrines of the Church are established, fixed, and unchangeable.

He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.

The important thing to know is that life will always deal us a few bad cards, but we have to play those cards the best we can. And we can play to win. This was one lesson I picked up when I was a teenager. It has been my guiding principle ever since. When I wanted something, the best person to depend on was myself.

We know the principles of coaching. The art is knowing when to apply them.

Both Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama pursued policies of regime change after 9/11 - with Bush removing al-Qaida's safe haven in Afghanistan and the sadistic anti-American dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq - but Obama took it a step further and disregarded regional stability as a guiding factor for U.S. policy.

Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

Coast to Coast AM may just be the most unusual show I have ever witnessed or been a part of. You really almost have to be born into that arena, I think, in order to handle it. I was very lucky in that's the way I was guiding my own career. It was this thirst to really get to the bottom of some of these stories that kept pushing me.

Gender equality is one of the principles we will never compromise at Accenture.

Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing.

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

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

The bride, white of hair, is stooped over her cane Her faltering footsteps need guiding. While down the church aisle, with wan toothless smile, The groom in a wheelchair comes riding. And who is this elderly couple you ask? You'll find, when you've closely explored it, That here is that rare, most conservative pair, Who waited 'til they could afford it.

In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished their teachings; time and again you have been captivated by their weakest points, taken not the great truth, but some trifling error as your guiding principal.

Free speech is one of the founding principles of our republic.

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

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

In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

You have this certain about of responsibility to play a fictitious character and you have a script that's guiding you and the other information of the custom department's choices, and the set department, "Where are you," and all those other pieces of information but you have to cull from your imagination the answer to all the unasked questions. And with a real person, there's someone to get that information from, perhaps.

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity.

I was born and raised a Christian and I still adhere to those principles.

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.

Be generous in prosperity and thankful in adversity, Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness, and a home to the stranger. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be a breath of life to the body of humankind, a dew to the soil of the human heart, and a fruit upon the tree of humility.

The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles.

Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

Solitude begins with a time and place for God, and him alone. If we really believe not only that God exists but also that he is actively present in our lives—healing, teaching, and guiding — we need to set aside a time and space to give him our undivided attention.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

There is tension between the values of modern society and the principles of Islam.

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.

All you have to do is DECIDE what you want. BELIEVE you DESERVE IT, and PRACTICE the success PRINCIPLES.

Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.

The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.

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

The only problem with Republican principles is no one's following them.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

We’re long on high principles and short on simple human understanding.

It's important. One of the principles in the United States is civilian control of the military.

I have too many responsibilities and principles. There's no time for 'guilty' pleasures.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.

It was your song that made me sing It was your song that gave me wings It was your light that shined guiding my heart to find This place where I belong It was your song Dreams can come true With God's great angels like you

While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences.

All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others' lives for it.

Decentralised collaborations are inherently threatening to Whitehall's core principles.