Top 1200 Moral Principles Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's words: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing awe: the stars above me and the moral law within me."... Would he, who did not yet know of the evolution of the world of organisms, be shocked that we consider the moral law within us not as something given, a priori, but as something which has arisen by natural evolution, just like the laws of the heavens?

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

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

In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy. It is the same case with the appeals for humanism, justice, equality, freedom, human rights, and so forth, which are all of religious origin. Certainly, everybody has the right to live as he thinks best, including the right not to be consistent with his own pattern. Still, to understand the world correctly, it is important to know the true origin of meaning and of the ideas ruling the world.

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

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

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

So often times we see these films that erode human dignity...films that deny the transcendent moral order of the moral universe. They're always eroding natural affections for families. Fathers betray their commitments, children's are always portrayed as brats and disobedient, marriages are always in crisis and struggle. I think (for) most of us, that's not the lives we live. We're always being challenged, we always have challenges but we love our families, we love our spouse, we love our children.

Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has committed to us the important task of proving by example that a government, if organized in all its parts on the Representative principle unadulterated by the infusion of spurious elements, if founded, not in the fears & follies of man, but on his reason, on his sense of right, on the predominance of the social over his dissocial passions, may be so free as to restrain him in no moral right, and so firm as to protect him from every moral wrong.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and it therefore, as a rule, meets with considerable resistance. Indeed, self-knowledge as a psychotherapuetic measure frequently requires much painstaking work extending over a long period of time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We need strong Christians who can persevere against hardship, who can sustain hope through tragedy, who can lift others by their example and their compassion, and who can consistently overcome temptations. We need strong Christians who can make important things happen by their faith and who can defend the truth of Jesus Christ against moral relativism and militant atheism. What is the source of such moral and spiritual power, and how do we obtain it? The source is God. Our access to that power is through our covenants with Him.

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

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

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

Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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