Top 1200 Guiding Principles Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.

If I can help create an environment where the principles that I believe in can be implemented - to me, that's fulfilling.

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

[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.

You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

Heavenly Father, thank You for Your peace that rules my heart. I choose Your peace today and thank You for guiding my every step. I choose to be thankful today and bless You for Your faithfulness. In Jesus Name. Amen.

We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

There are no choices that are really a detour that will take you far from where you're wanting to be - because your Inner Being is always guiding you to the next, and the next, and the next. So don't be concerned that you may make a fatal choice, because there aren't any of those. You are always finding your balance. It's a never ending process.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

I don't care about what brand you are, I'm concerned what type of man you are, what your principles and standards are.

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.

My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

Stand up for your principles, but be a decent human being while you're doing it.

But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

Discrimination based on one's religion goes directly against our founding principles.

True love is impossible for those to whom principles mean little.

Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

Citizen service is a repudiation of the principles upon which our country was based. We are all here for ourselves.

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years.

We should not fear what our country was built on: a set of Judeo-Christian principles.

Corporate governance should be done more through principles than rules.

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

The principles of Buddhism and Shambhala can be effective in helping the course of what is happening in the world.

The principles of Buddhism have become more commonplace, which is a good thing.

For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.

You have principles. You test them as accurately as you can. Eventually, they might break down.

When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes in store. In the summers, I'd backpack through Europe, follow the Grateful Dead. I had a car and a tent and traveled around the Great Lakes and out West. Jack Kerouac was my guiding light, his 'On the Road' a sacred text.

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

It had never gotten old for him, flying. Never gone boring. Every engine start was a new adventure, guiding the spirit of a lovely machine back into life; every takeoff blending his spirit with its own to do what's never been done in history, to lift away from the ground and fly.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

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

One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

You must practice to be able to return to essential principles at any moment.

There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.