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Quotes About Principle

National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty
~ Sunday Adelaja
I would rather suffer with truth than celebrate with lies.
~ Orrin Woodward
Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.
~ Subhas Chandra Bose
I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it.
~ Eugene V. Debs
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought
~ Abraham Lincoln
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
I am pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. However, my pragmatism also extends to maintainability, which is why I also want it done well.
~ Linus Torvalds
Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.
~ Learned Hand
Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.
~ Edward James Olmos
I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight you to the death for the right to fight you to the death.
~ Stephen Colbert
Frost was intuitively aware of an important principle: In the cultivation of dharma, there is nothing more important than understanding what conditions are needed, and relentlessly creating them.
~ Stephen Cope
3. Next (another good principle from Bede), "When you get a response, check it out." Check it out with friends, with mentors. Talk about it. This, says Bede, is a classic principle of guidance: Test the guidance. Real guidance will stand up to sustained testing. False guidance—which is usually just our own will trying to have its way—will not stand up to ongoing scrutiny.
~ Stephen Cope
Because this principle is so important, and because Arjuna is so very likely to lose his tenuous grasp on it, Krishna reminds him over and over again throughout their dialogue. "The disunited mind is far from wise," he nudges. The mind "must overcome the confusion of duality.
~ Stephen Cope
The cultivation of this quality of "evenness" is a central principle of the Bhagavad Gita. It is called samatva in Sanskrit, and it is a central pillar of Krishna's practice. When the mind develops steadiness, teaches Krishna, it is not shaken by fear or greed.
~ Stephen Cope
A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
~ Stephen Covey
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
~ Stephen Decatur
The greatest good, all that, which is also just a way of saying the least bad
~ Stephen Graham Jones
I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.
~ Stephen Harper
If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
~ Stephen Hawking
In the Logic, Hegel states that this 'unity' of thought and being constitutes the 'element' or 'principle' of logic.7 Logic thus starts from the idea that being is known by pure thought to be intelligible to pure thought.
~ Stephen Houlgate
It is difficult to trust someone not raised to doctrine.
~ Stephen L. Carter
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Since the universe and everything in it is energy, mind power works on the principle that if you match your frequency to what it is you desire, it has no choice but to become, since like attracts like.
~ Stephen Richards