Quotes About Principles

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life.

The values of life are most important.

Life is essentially a question of values.

The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.

Just stand up for your principals and be loyal to your friends and family.

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

There have always been those who argued that the end justifies the means, that the means aren't really important," [King] said. "But we will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize the ends are not cut off from the means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in the process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

Liberals argued for progress; conservatives argued for a return to the nation's founding principles. Change is a founding principle, too, but people divided by schism are blind to what they share: one half, infallible; the other, never wrong.

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

Fuck fashion in the face of need, and fuck it anyway just on good general principles.

It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

Integrity never goes out of style.

In high-performance teams, "the leaders managed the principles, and the principles managed the team.

The Agile Project Management principles and framework encourage learning and adapting as an integral part of delivering value to customers.

A team can employ agile practices, but it won't achieve the potential benefit of agile development without embracing agile values and principles.

rinciples, or "rules" in complexity theory terminology, affect how tools and practices are implemented. Practices are how principles are acted out. Grand principles that generate no action are mere vapor. Conversely, specific practices in the absence of guiding principles are often inappropriately used. Although the use of agile practices may vary from team to team, the principles are constant. Principles are the simple rules of complex human adaptive systems.

If we want to build great products, we need great people. If we want to attract and keep great people, we need great principles.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.

But what I'm saying is that whenever I've been in trouble spots -- in crises (and I've been in a lot of trouble and in a lot of crises) -- the sine qua non of a leader has lain not in his chesslike grasp of issues and the options they portend, not in his style of management, not in his skill at processing information, but in his having the character, the heart, to deal spontaneously, honorably, and candidly with people, perplexities, and principles.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'