Quotes About Principles

That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

If you claim a standard, you have to live by it. Win or lose. Else the standard never meant nothing.

A prince can mak a belted knight,A marquis, duke, and a' that;But an honest man's aboon his might,Guid faith, he mauna fa' that.

Let them cant about decorum, who have characters to lose!

They have cheveril consciences that will stretch.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

These developments were not due to a conspiracy among the rich nor simply to colonialism (although it played a role). They were the result of one of the fundamental principles of economics – comparative advantage.

Honesty in small things is not a small thing.

Good software systems begin with clean code. On the one hand, if the bricks aren't well made, the architecture of the building doesn't matter much. On the other hand, you can make a substantial mess with well-made bricks. This is where the SOLID principles come in.

Duplication and expressiveness take me a very long way into what I consider clean code, and improving dirty code with just these two things in mind can make a huge difference. There is, however, one other thing that I'm aware of doing, which is a bit harder to explain.

Duplication may be the root of all evil in software. Many principles and practices have been created for the purpose of controlling or eliminating it.

The SOLID principles tell us how to arrange our functions and data structures into classes, and how those classes should be interconnected. The use of the word "class" does not imply that these principles are applicable only to object-oriented software. A class is simply a coupled grouping of functions and data. Every software system has such groupings, whether they are called classes or not. The SOLID principles apply to those groupings.

The goal of the principles is the creation of mid-level software structures that: • Tolerate change, • Are easy to understand, and • Are the basis of components that can be used in many software systems.

Don't hide side effects with a name. Don't use a simple verb to describe a function that does more than just that simple action.

three principles of component cohesion: • REP: The Reuse/Release Equivalence Principle • CCP: The Common Closure Principle • CRP: The Common Reuse Principle

There are two parts to learning craftsmanship: knowledge and work. You must gain the knowledge of principles, patterns, practices, and heuristics that a craftsman knows, and you must also grind that knowledge into your fingers, eyes, and gut by working hard and practicing.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only

The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One s right to life liberty and property to free speech a free press freedom of worship and assembly and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote they depend on the outcome of no elections.

My four golden principles are more important now than ever: take it one step at a time; approach the matter dispassionately; avoid a rush to judgement; confide in nobody until there is hard evidence.

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

As much as I believe in tolerance and fairness, I have never lost a wink of sleep about being unapologetically intolerant of anyone who refuses to show respect for those around them.

How long had he been doing what was necessary instead of what was right? In a fair world they would be one and the same.

No todas las personas podían ser igualmente valientes, pero la cobardía era despreciable.