Quotes About Principles

For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.

In government institutions and in teaching, you need to inspire confidence. To achieve credibility, you have to very clearly explain what you are doing and why. The same principles apply to businesses.

We represent the moderate teachings and principles of Islam.

I didn't want to be like some other guys who jump on another team's bandwagon just to get a ring.

No amount of alcohol or any illegal substance would make me touch him.

Walpole sniffed, "to prostitute his character and authenticate his hypocrisy.

Their attempt upon Three Rivers was founded in rashness and executed with timidity, two principles which compounded make a consummation of preposterous conduct," Burgoyne wrote Clinton with his usual magniloquence.

I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.

Thus empiricism directed attention away from abstract principles to the data of experience. Hence, while the philosophers of the pre-Enlightenment period favoured the geometric method, reasoning deductively from first principles, their successors worked by induction, first observing particular details and arriving eventually at general truths.

Your morality is determined by your conscience and mine is determined by my conscience.

If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses)

Bob Moses had learned what was needed to make dreams become realities. He had learned the lesson of power. And now he grabbed for power with both hands. To free his hands for the grab, he shook impatiently from them the last crumbs of the principles with which he had entered public service and for which, during his years of idealism, he had fought só hard.

T]he forcing of any special brand of freedom and democracy on a people, whether they want it or not, by the brute force of war will be a denial of those very democratic principles which we are striving to advance.

Each one of us has the ability to play the game of life with balance, harmony and joy, but we need to know the rules and the principles.

Without voluntary adherence to a set of common notions about right and wrong, daily life would be insufferable. We would be living in a jungle where only the strongest, cleverest, and most wary could hope to survive. This would not be a society. It wouldn't even be a civilization, because there would be no civility at its core.

I believe we're bound together by the ideals and principles we share, and the mutual obligations those principles entail.

Do not seek dishonest gains; dishonest

a maioria delas se enquadra em seis categorias básicas, sendo cada uma delas governada por um dos princípios psicológicos fundamentais que comandam a conduta humana. Este livro está organizado em torno desses seis princípios – reciprocidade, coerência, aprovação social, afeição, autoridade e escassez.

Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles!

Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons . . . And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned around on you--where would you hide, . . . the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast--man's laws, not God's--and if you cut them down . . . do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I would give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake."

Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and "righty-tighty, lefty-loosey."