Top 1200 Guiding Principles Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

One of the key principles we have at Amazon is 'by a fraction.' We like to get things done quickly.

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

The mantle of leadership for promoting the principles of peace has fallen to America. We didn't ask for it. But it's an honor that we have it.

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

Indeed, in foreign policymaking, inconsistency is often a virtue. I speak not of principles but of policy.

I'm convinced that business success in the future starts with the question, What should I do with my life? Yes, that's right.... People don't succeed by migrating to a "hot" industry (one word: dotcom) or by adopting a particular career-guiding mantra (remember "horizontal careers"?). They thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are--and connecting that to work that they truly love (and, in so doing, unleashing a productive and creative power that they never imagined).

Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.

Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

It's difficult to see how the U.K. can be a member of the E.U. if it's not adherent to the principles set out in the convention.

The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.

A successful razor can be made on the principles of the Gillette patent... and the advance of anything known can be reached.

You know, you put a lot of ingredients in there and you hope something comes out that has an interesting taste to your palate. I think ultimately what...what God was guiding me to do was. (to) talk about our paths and the uniqueness of each of our paths and truth being the key to getting on your path, being true to what you really want in life.

I ask the members of the Knesset to be very strict about maintaining the principles of democracy.

I tend to think that free-market conservative principles are the best ones for the CEO of a state.

Many priests and employees at temples work for pay. No one should judge religion on the basis of the shortcomings of such workers. We should frame suitable rules and regulations for preventing them from falling prey to material temptations. The true guiding spirits of religion are those who engage in selfless service while dedicating their entire lives to attaining the vision of God.

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.

I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.

The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

Jon Tester no longer can say that he supports the principles and values of the people of Montana.

When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti.

My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.

I have acquired many wonderful principles from my family, and I intend to follow these for the rest of my life.

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

I believe that free-market principles will solve our healthcare problems.

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs.

One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

It is deeply against my principles to work on any project that I think is to weaponize AI.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

I'm not sure I can articulate any principles behind the decisions about what to cut and what to keep.

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts.

One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

We start with first principles. The Constitution creates a Federal Government of enumerated powers.

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.

Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.