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Principal Quotes

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

You must place interest in principle above interest on principal.

Julian Bond
Principles, Interest, Principal

In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson
Rocks, Matter, Principal

Do something. Either lead, follow or get out of the way.

Ted Turner
Business, Way, School Principal
Ted Turner, Janet Lowe (1999). “Ted Turner speaks: insight from the world's greatest maverick”, Wiley

The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music, Difficult, Principal
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1905). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

Henry Bolingbroke
Patriotism, Virtue, Principal

Aggressiveness is the principal guarantor of survival.

Robert Ardrey
Survival, Principal, Aggressiveness

My goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT.

Misty Copeland
Goal, Dancer, Principal
Source: www.wbur.org

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

Claude Adrien Helvetius
Passion, Motive, Principal

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

Arthur Schnitzler
Tasks, Illusion, Principal
Arthur Schnitzler (1911). “Anatol: A Sequence of Dialogues”

Audacity, always audacity - soundest principal of strategy.

Robert A. Heinlein
Audacity, Strategy, Principal

Shooting is my principal pastime.

William S. Burroughs
Shooting, Pastime, Principal

You can't live principals you can't understand.

Stephen Covey
Understanding, Principal

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Joseph Heller
Rise Above, Principal

One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it.

Artemas Ward
Entertainment, Enjoyment, Principal
"Artemus Ward's Lecture on the Mormons". Book edited by Edward P. Hingston, 1882.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Walter Savage Landor
Motivational, Motivation, Principal

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

Gustave Flaubert
Boredom, Goal, Principal
Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.113, Harvard University Press

The organizing principal for any culture is War.

George Orwell
War, Culture, Principal

Total evil. dang, his principal had been right all along... he really was demonspawn.

Sherrilyn Kenyon
Evil, Principal
Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.7, Macmillan

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Leo Tolstoy
Doubt, Sin, Principal
Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Anna Karenina”, p.527, Modern Library

The spirit from which we act is the principal matter.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Matter, Spirit, Principal

The principal thing in the world is to keep the soul aloft.

Gustave Flaubert
Soul, World, Principal

I've had a lot of people tell me they wish I were their principal.

Chi McBride
People, Wish, Principal
"Chi McBride of 'Boston Public'". Interview with Lori Blackman, edition.cnn.com. April 10, 2001.

The basic principal of recursive design is to make the parts have the same power as the whole.

Bob Barton
Design, Whole, Principal

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