Principles Quotes

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

Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.

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

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

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society.

Our citizens will lose their confidence or trust in the values and principles of the international community, especially if our personal identity is denied.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave reasonably - well, I don't see how you can have any ethics or any ethical background for law.

The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

I'm one of those that have said, one of my key principles is I will not support a health care reform bill that is not deficit-neutral, period.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.

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

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

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

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

I don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people.