Principles Quotes

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
Donald Trump

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
Frederick Buechner

One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.
Jerome K. Jerome

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
J. G. Holland

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
William Faulkner

Example is the best precept.
Aesop

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
Aesop

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard P. Feynman

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Immanuel Kant

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Marquis de Sade

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Jane Austen

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
Brigham Young

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Stephen Covey

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee

Honor your commitments with integrity.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
George MacDonald

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

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

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
Ray Kroc

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

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

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
Thomas Huxley

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: 'It connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

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

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

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano de Bergerac

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
Alfred North Whitehead