Principles Quotes - Page 18

I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study - more important than ever before in these days of uncertainties, when men and woman are apt to decide questions from the standpoint of expediency rather than the eternal principles laid down by God, Himself.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.

When you teach, you learn." "And I really don't go for religions of any kind. ...I reject them all....There were principles I thought were very important.

Regarding History as the slaughter-bench at which the happiness of peoples, the wisdom of States, and the virtue of individuals have been victimized--the question involuntarily arises--to what principle, to what final aim these enormous sacrifices have been offered.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

An organization's success has more to do with clarity of shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating ability or management competence, important as they may be.

It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.

As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it in the other; for the two are inseparably united in the representations of Scripture

When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

One never accomplishes the will of God by breaking the law of God, violating the principles of God, or ignoring the wisdom of God.

One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.

There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time.

Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.

We must not let the actions or words of others determine our responses. Magnanimous people make the choice to respond to the indignities of others based upon their own principles and their own value system rather than their moods or anger.

Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

Before we're Americans, we're Christians. And so we have to be informed by a certain moral sense, which means that we need to speak up for moral principle and for gospel principle regardless of who that offends.

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.