Principles Quotes - Page 63

It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.

I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.

And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.

To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence.

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.

Business can constitute an enormous force for goodness in society. Through its commitments to corporate citizenship and to the principles of the UNGC, the global business community can continue to create and deliver value to society.

Since everything emanates from God, he is the embodied principle in every being. Each one of us is made from God. Tat twam asi - "You are That One" who is eternally blissful, that one principle manifesting itself as this variety of Creation.

We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that.

The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

The mentoring program [of the Steve Harvey foundation] is to teach young boys the principles of manhood.

What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?

Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.

Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential.

He doesn't marry a woman who is perfect. He marries the woman who is interesting.

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

The four natural principles for success are: A clear goal, a definite plan, confidence, no fear of failure.

The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.

The general point that a political theory is, among other things, a partisan intervention, is well taken. So question about the actual political implication of a theory cannot be excluded as, in principle, irrelevant.

The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

In a relationship the way to overcome problems, is to focus our attention on higher principles that can help us transcend them.