Quotes About Principles

We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destruction would ruin the possibility of peace and security for the peoples of the earth.

Leadership, in other words, is a matter of character, not goals.

There are four principles we need to maintain: First, read the Word of God. Second, consume the Word of God until it consumes you. Third believe the Word of God. Fourth, act on the Word.

It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

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

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission...its masterpiece is, to reunite them.

the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

His biggest rule was that you didn't involve anyone who wasn't already playing the game. Or, as he phrased it, if you have to kill innocent bystanders, then your planning is at fault and someone should best eliminate you.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

In this study, we have tried to focus on timeless biblical principles rather than the specific application of those principles.

what enthralled my imagination in the whole subject of natural history was not the orderly array of facts, but the glimpse I caught, through this or that fragment of science, of the grand principles underlying the facts.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

se quisermos fazer um verdadeiro progresso (...), temos de retroceder a alguns dos primeiros princípios acerca da natureza da autoridade verbal, acerca do que a constitui e de como aprendemos a ouvir a autoridade quando o fazemos. E em vez de empurrar as mulheres para as aulas de dicção para ficarem com um tom agradável, profundo (...), devíamos pensar mais acerca das clivagens e das fraturas que subjazem nos diálogos dominantemente masculinos?

Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship; it is always imperfect if either of these two are wanting.

Of the five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way?

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them