Principles Quotes
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. (Quote by - Richard Feynman)
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. (Quote by - Frank McKinny Kin Hubbard)
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. (Quote by - Nehru)
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice (Quote by - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government and I will lead it as party of government. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. (Quote by - Alex Karras)
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
Important principles may and must be inflexible. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. (Quote by - Dwight D Eisenhower)
If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. (Quote by - Alfred Adler)
High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life (Quote by - John Templeton)
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them well, I have others. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right. (Quote by - Theodore Hesburgh)
Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers. (Quote by - William Feather)
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody, (Quote by - Agatha Christie)
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. (Quote by - Everett Dirkse)
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)
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. (Quote by - Alan Watts)
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. (Quote by - Herbert Samuel)
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
