Principles Quotations | Page 3

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

The Millennium Development Goals were a pledge to uphold the principles of human dignity, equality and equity, and free the world from extreme poverty. The MDGs, with eight goals and a set of measurable time-bound targets, established a blueprint for tackling the most pressing development challenges of our time.

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

I think people really understand that clean air and clean water and not having factories dumping their emissions into the atmosphere and into the rivers and into the sea has been a very good thing for America. EPA stands watch for very important principles that go all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt.

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

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

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.

The major studios don't differ very much from one another as they all operate under essentially the same principles and pressure.

You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.

I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America great.

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

I do go against my leadership all the time because I stand firm on the four questions that I ask about all legislation. The first, is it constitutional according to the original intent? The second, does it fit the Judeo-Christian Biblical principles that our nation is founded upon? Third, do we need it? Fourth, can we afford it?

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

I was in the military for over 40 years, and one of the principles I kept with me was that there's an expectation globally that the U.S. will lead. Questions about that expectation have certainly risen in recent years. The fact that there's even a question about that is worrisome to me, and I think needs to be for a lot of people.

I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.

The Feeding the 5000 campaign is inviting food businesses to sign up to the principles of the Food Waste Pyramid tool, which illustrates a simple set of steps that any food business can take to avoid and reduce food waste.

Passionately defending one's principles is crucial. Representing your district is fundamental. But refusing to entertain the common ground - with no other cost but giving the other guy a political 'win' - is a disservice.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.

For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantly, the predictive success of Newtonian theory, emphasizing the primacy of a physical Universe, made the existence of spirit and God an extraneous hypothesis that offered no explanatory principles needed by science.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.

We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.

My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

I feel a deep sense of responsibility to share everything that we've learned from TOMS, so that others can learn from both our mistakes and the counterintuitive principles that have guided our success.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial companies and cyclicals, technology companies - with their sky-high price-to-earnings multiples - should be among the biggest losers in an environment of rising rates.

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.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean.

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

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

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

My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to be realised by the educator is that he really has before him an entirely new soul, a real self whose first and chief right is to think over the things with which he comes in contact.

As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

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

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.