Quotes About Principle

It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life.

if, relative to K, K' is a uniformly moving co-ordinate system devoid of rotation, then natural phenomena run their course with respect to K' according to exactly the same general laws as with respect to K. This statement is called the Principle of Relativity (in the restricted sense).

it is not difficult to understand why the general principle of relativity (on the basis of the equivalence principle) has led to a theory of gravitation.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

His principle in politics was a -very simple one : If you see anything, stop it ; everything that is, is wrong ; the world is a very wicked place.

His principle in politics was a -very simple one : If you see anything, stop it ; everything that is, is wrong ; the world is a very wicked place. He was very enthusiastic about putting through a law for suppressing the evil of drugs.

The things that worry the pedestrian worry us not at all; but to control a new element your Yama must be that biological principle of adaptation to the new conditions, adjustment of the faculties to those conditions, and consequent success in those conditions

The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.

But please be careful—and never, never think that you are justified in doing something wrong just because you are trying to do something right.

Truth had a way of coming out on top—and it was just as well for everybody that it did. If there ever came a day when truth was so soundly defeated that it never emerged, but sank, instead, under the sheer volume of untruth that the world produced, then that would be a sad day for Botswana, and for the people who lived in Botswana. It would be a sad day for the whole world, that day.

Africa was full of people in need of help and there had to be a limit. You simply could not help everybody; but you could at least help those who came into your life. That principle allowed you to deal with the suffering you saw. That was your suffering. Other people would have to deal with the suffering that they, in their turn, came across.

When you are in doubt as to which you should serve forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle for this is everything.

So like Athos. thought Aramis; That which is actually good never alters.

It concerns the point at which courage is the logical and sometimes the only possible outcome of integrity.

There comes a time when one must take the position that it is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because his conscience tells him it is right.

the competitive exclusion principle.

What we call life is really a form of water, activated and animated not by a divine principle but the energetic cosmos around it.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

from John Hay's diary) "The President never appeared to better advantage in the world," Hay proudly noted in his diary. "Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.

I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

Our God is able to deliver us, but even if He does not, be it known, o king, that we will not consent to applaud the use of a man as though he were a woman.

Every doctrine lives as it is applied and no other way.

Discipline by principle means that your system of discipline makes sense. It is orderly. It is not a chaos of commandments that depend upon the emotional state of Mom or Dad at the time the directives are delivered.