Principles Quotes - Page 3

Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion.

The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles.

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Place principle above all else.

The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son of God…or you capitulate to the principle which governs the rest of the world.

Pareto's Principle: you generally spend 80% of your time on 20% of the project.

If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.

I'm grateful for believing in a religion that can naturally adapt to changing times yet uphold timeless values and principles.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.

I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent.

In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure.

It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.

Even if we have to go without bread, we Albanians do not violate principles. We do not betray Marxism - Leninism.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.

The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.

The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.

That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.