Top 1200 Guiding Principles Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

My mother, Mary, has been a guiding force for as long as I can remember through the examples she's set as a single mother. She demonstrated her confidence and faith in me by investing everything in me and the business at a time when she had just lost everything.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

I'm inventing new principles. The audience has a point of view that no one can predict.

Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!

Principles are things which one calls upon to avoid something unpleasant.

By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

If someone is willing to sell out his principles for the job, he is not worthy of it.

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

I probably have mellowed down a bit. But when it comes to principles, I still have to make a stand.

My principles are simple. Protect the Earth. Serve the People, and Explore the Universe

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

Whatever type of football you want to play, if you don't have certain principles you're lost.

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

Chiropractic is founded upon different principles than those of medicine.

The world wants to like America. The guiding values that Thomas Jefferson articulated so eloquently - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - resonate strongly around the world, transcending countless superficial and cultural differences, not because these are American values, but because they are universal values, embedded in the human heart.

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

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

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

Far more unwaveringly, the neurotic keeps before his eye his God, his idol, his ideal of personality and clings to his guiding principle, losing sight in the meanwhile of reality, whereas the normal person is always ready to dispense with this crutch, this aid, and reckon unhampered with reality.

I have principles in my professional and personal life as to how things are done.

But principles defended at the expense of pragmatic application is the business of priests.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Visual artists choreograph dances for the eyes, guiding visual journeys in specific ways. But when presented with little or nothing, the journeys of the eyes become erratic and finally still their restless searching. The eye and mind and heart grow quiet, come to rest, and begin to understand their own functioning more deeply.

Business principles are only as good as the practices that back them up.

Profit doesn't appear as the goal but as a side effect of pursuing motivating principles.

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

He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

India's engagement with the ASEAN region lies in the clarity of the principles that we share.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

You know flexibility is a good thing but it shouldn't - you shouldn't be flexible on core principles.

Principles, convictions and motives are neither sold nor bargained for!

The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice.

I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley Horn. I am inspired by my mentor Diana Castle, who is guiding me towards a truth and honesty in my life and work that I have always longed for.

You can use principles of the free market to drive social change.

I think, [ "You're All That"] it's based around the biblical principles and truths that transformed me.

One of the principles upon which the E.U. is built is the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary.

One of the basic principles when you dealing with mathematics and Islam: Seek knowledge.

The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.

He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.