Top 1200 Guiding Principles Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the laws of nature or the laws of life. Those who understand more of them and understand them well know how to interact with the world more effectively than those who know fewer of them or know them less well.

The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

The whole decision to do my show was that I was trying to "true up" my work life and my personal life and I wanted the principles in both of them to be the same. And the only way that I could think of to do that was to make a show about exploring cultures through food that demonstrated those principles with every story that we told.

The religious stories, the religious truths, the spiritual principles - obviously, they don't change. But as you get older and you experience more, you recognize the applicability, the profundity, and the fundamental truths of spiritual principles in ways that you couldn't when you simply were living a less dimensional life.

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.

I don't have a religion. I ain't nothing wrong with church as long as they selling chicken. Cause I read the Quran, I read the Kabalah, I read the Bible. They all got the same three basic principles: Love God, love your neighbor as yourself, and...As far as me being, I live by those principles.

The principles of comedy are the principles of comedy. I can hear funny.

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.

Net Neutrality - a guiding principle of the Internet since its beginning - means that content is all treated equally.

I don't want to be poor, of course. But I try not to make that the guiding force behind whether I choose to do something or not.

Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.

Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle.

I've always worked toward, and felt comfortable with, you know, pausing and guiding the audience on a longer bit.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy.

While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the past, it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice.

Humility is the mother of all virtues: the humble in spirit progress and are blessed because they willingly submit to higher powers and try to live in harmony with natural laws and universal principles. Courage is the father of all virtues; we need great courage to lead our lives by correct principles and to have integrity in the moment of choice.

For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his handiwork for the light it throws on him and on his program for his children. For me, there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion.

There is nothing mysterious about the principles of the gospel. We have studied them in the scriptures, we have discussed them in Sunday School, and we have heard them from the pulpit many times. These divine principles and values are straightforward and clear; they are beautiful, profound, and powerful; and they can definitely help us to avoid future regrets.

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.

The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.

The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which is great and excellent among men. But its principles are as easily destroyed as human nature is corrupted. Such a government is only to be supported by pure religion or Austere morals.

My father is my true inspiration. He's a motivational speaker, so he does a fine job of guiding me.

I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.

The guiding principle of ruling elites was--and still is: When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed.

Merlin was very definitely supposed to be an old man guiding the young Arthur to the throne.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

I developed this guiding statement to stress on the fact that every good thing takes time to develop.

We live in an age in which the fundamental principles to which we subscribe - liberty, equality and justice for all - are encountering extraordinary challenges, ... But it is also an age in which we can join hands with others who hold to those principles and face similar challenges.

When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of society. Liberty, truth, probity, honor, are declared to be the four cardinal principles of society. I believe that morality, compassion, generosity, are innate elements of the human constitution; that there exists a right independent of force.

I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote.

The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run– without undermining the needs of the moment. Bad presidents simply do what is expedient, heedless of principles. But the worst presidents are those who adhere to the principles regardless of what the fortunes of the moment demand.

I've come up through the ranks of this parliamentary party and let me tell you the principles that have guided me on that journey since my first election 25 years ago: Loyalty to the party, service to our country, and a determination to always do my best for the people. They are principles that still guide me.

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

You're the first, the last, and my everything and the answer to all my dreams. You're my sun, my moon, my guiding star, my kind of wonderful, that's what you are

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

Food, like anything else, lives in the physical world and obeys the laws of physics. When you whisk together some oil and a little bit of lemon juice - or, in other words, make mayonnaise - you are using the principles of physics and chemistry. Understanding how those principles affect cooking lets you cook better.

The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing.

The Way is the beginning of the ten thousand things and the guiding thread of truth and falsity.

The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST.

If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.

We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.

Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give their children — concrete, imaginative, teaching general principles from particular instances, and seeking all the time to bring the children to appreciate and share the parent's own attitudes and view of life… The all-embracing principles of conduct

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.

Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from the beginning of Western Civilization; an insult to the principles of our Declaration of Independence; a bane of our national spirit; and a stench in the nostrils of Almighty God.

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

My one guiding rule for success in the film world would be, be careful of your friends.

Don't get me wrong, I am a proud Republican, and I want to support my party. I am a firm believer in the Republican principles of smaller government, low taxes and economic freedom. I have spent my time in government service fighting for these principles.

The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.

The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.

Many people in this world are merely playing a role, unaware that there is an Invisible Hand guiding them.