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Principles make it simple. By Leonard Peikoff Principles Simple Make

Principle will, in ... most ... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion. By Thomas Jefferson Principle Cases Conclusion Open Correct

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications. By Henry David Thoreau Familiar Applications Principle

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. By Thomas Traherne Principles Ground Field Seed Continually

Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put forth an idea; it's not the longevity of the person or the party of the person. That's not what it is at all. In a power system, that's the way it works. But in a principle system, it's what it says. By Dan Webster Idea Put Person System Principle

The world rests on principles. By Henry David Thoreau Principles World Rests

Principle 1: By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So in everything you do, learn to set limitations. Principle 2: By choosing the essential, we create great impact with minimal resources. Always choose the essential to maximize your time and energy. By Leo Babauta Principle Limitations Essential Setting Choose

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain. By Ralph Waldo Emerson Explain Principle Number Things

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right. By Theodore Hesburgh Make Easy Cheap Popular Basic

Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author. By Thomas Paine Author Man Make Invent Principles

In life, the greater the principle, the less people there are who will follow it. The higher the calling, the fewer the followers. By Craig D. Lounsbrough Life Principle Greater People Follow

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end. By Thomas Jefferson End Principle Thing Follow

Only the 'Right belief' gives rise to non-contradicting principle and that which is free from contradiction is known as 'Principle'. By Dada Bhagwan Principle Belief Rise Noncontradicting Free

Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction. By Max Lerner Principlesand Direction Mind Principles States

Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the laws of nature or the laws of life. Those who understand more of them and understand them well know how to interact with the world more effectively than those who know fewer of them or know them less well. By Ray Dalio Principles Questions Concepts Applied Similar

Let principles make decisions. By Jack Hyles Decisions Principles Make

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater. By D.h. Lawrence Life Greater Principle Forfeit

[Adam Ferguson], 'Of the Principle of By Nicholas Phillipson Adam Ferguson Principle

Principles without facts are empty, but facts without principles are blind. By Peter Kreeft Empty Blind Principles Facts

Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences when we ignore them. But because these principles apply to everyone, whether or not they are aware, this limitation is universal. And the more we know of correct principles, the greater is our personal freedom to act wisely. By Stephen Covey Consequences Principles Natural Attached Positive

Place principle above all else. By Haile Selassie Place Principle

There are three principles in a man's being and life: The principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say. By Martin Buber Principle Life Thought Speech Action

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths. By Stephen Covey Die Principles Truths Fire Earthquake

A devotion to principle, whether that principle makes much sense to the rest of us, is usually something to marvel at. By Sports Illustrated Principle Devotion Makes Sense Rest

The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice. By Allan Kardec Intellect Practice Principle Understood Inexcusable

Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before the apple ever fell on Newton's head. But once it did, and he understood it, then we as a society were free to harness this principle to create, among other things, airline flight. By Andy Andrews Curiously Principle Affects Life Aware

His principle can be quite simply stated: he refuses to die while he is still alive. He seeks to remind himself, by every electric shock to the intellect, that he is still a man alive, walking on two legs about the world. For this reason he fires bullets at his best friends; for this reason he arranges ladders and collapsible chimneys to steal his own property; for this reason he goes plodding around a whole planet to get back to his own home; and for this reason he has been in the habit of taking the woman whom he loved with a permanent loyalty, and leaving her about (so to speak) at schools, boarding-houses, and places of business, so that he might recover her again and again with a raid and a romantic elopement. He seriously sought by a perpetual recapture of his bride to keep alive the sense of her perpetual value, and the perils that should be run for her sake. By G.k. Chesterton Reason Alive Stated Principle Simply

Wait. You've got principles? We'll have to update your file. By Simon R. Green Wait Principles File Update

For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not at all think of them. By Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Innate General Thoughts Connection Principles

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. By Red Skelton Actions Springs Principles Misery Happiness

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are. By Stephen Covey Principles Truth Correct Knowledge Things

Centering on principles provides sufficient security to not be threatened by change, comparisons, or criticisms; guidance to discover our mission, define our roles, and write our scripts and goals; wisdom to learn from our mistakes and seek continuous improvement; and power to communicate and cooperate, even under conditions of stress and fatigue. By Stephen R. Covey Comparisons Centering Change Criticisms Guidance

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful. By Dietrich Bonhoeffer God Principles Tools Hands Thrown

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party. By Lady Violet Noble Principles Prayers Party Awkward

The principle of God is love and honor By Sunday Adelaja God Honor Principle Love

There is only one principle, and this is Good. There is no principle of evil. If there were a principle of evil, evil would be positive and not negative, and therefore could never be overcome, because it would be eternal and unchanging. By Henry Thomas Hamblin Good Principle Evil Negative Overcome

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age. By Matthew Simpson Age Principle Deepest Affections Hearts

As a principle-centered person, you see things differently. And because you see things differently, you think differently, you act differently. Because you have a high degree of security, guidance, wisdom, and power that flows from a solid, unchanging core, you have the foundation of a highly proactive and highly effective life. By Stephen R. Covey Differently Things Person Principlecentered Highly

Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all. By Stephen Covey Principles Basis Developing Vision System

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad. By John Milton Bad Good Principle Rightly Understood

Are we truly acting from principle and not from interest? Surely it is at least convenient that for us the two coincide. By John Colville Interest Acting Principle Surely Coincide

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. By Steve Young Principle Competing Selfimprovement Day

Unless there is a 'clear evident experience of the True Self' [spasthvedan], till then 'Principle' cannot be attained. By Dada Bhagwan Principle Spasthvedan True Clear Till

Principles have a way of yielding to power. By Bette Lord Principles Power Yielding

The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its acts, and the majority of people, little accustomed to think, has little of it. By Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Innate Principles Moment Separately Acts

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions. By John Rawls Principles General Descriptions Formulate Intuitively

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. By W. Somerset Maugham Expediency Thing Principle Sacrificed

On principle' one can do anything and what one does is, fundamentally, a matter of indifference, just as a man's life remains insignificant even though 'on principle' he gives his support to all the 'needs of the times. By Soren Kierkegaard Principle Fundamentally Indifference Times Matter

It's something that people who read my materials have asked me in the past. If you don't have principles - the last chapter of the book ["Win"] is all about winning with principles. It's all about applying words to good things, good people, good efforts. Without that inherent accuracy, then even the best words will still fail. By Frank Luntz Win Past Principles Good Read

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite. By Katharine Anthony Principles Dynamite Dangerous Form Social

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men. By Jonathan Mayhew Arguing World Purposes Men True

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself. By Abraham Lincoln Standard Principle Fixed

One's principles is a prayer. It By Tariq Ramadan Prayer Principles

Most principles are limp until they are tested. By Richard Brookhiser Tested Principles Limp

Principles Principles are rules you have made in order to align what you are doing to some larger goal, and will sometimes change. For example, if one of your strategic goals as an organization is to decrease the time to market for new features, you may define a principle that says that delivery teams have full control over the lifecycle of their software to ship whenever they are ready, independently of any other team. If another goal is that your organization is moving to aggressively grow its offering in other countries, you may decide to implement a principle that the entire system must be portable to allow for it to be deployed locally in order to respect sovereignty of data. You probably don't want loads of these. Fewer than 10 is a good number - small enough that people can remember them, or to fit on small posters. The more principles you have, the greater the chance that they overlap or contradict each other. By Sam Newman Principles Principle Order Goal Change

Principles are laws that are established by the creator or the manufacturer by which a product functions. If you violate those laws, then you produce malfunction, which is what we call failure. If you obey those laws and align yourself with those laws, then you are guaranteed success. By Myles Munroe Laws Principles Functions Established Creator

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us By Larry Burkett God Stewardship Principle Surrounds Managers

When I am convinced of any principle, it is only an idea which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence. By David Hume Principle Convinced Idea Strikes Strongly

between the principle and its implementation often lay some anguish. By Julian Barnes Anguish Principle Implementation Lay

The principles always work if you work the principles. By Jack Canfield Principles Work

No principle ever filled anybody's milk bottle By Ayn Rand Bottle Principle Filled Milk

Protection is not a principle but an expedient By Benjamin Disraeli Protection Expedient Principle

When principles are so absurd and so destructive of human society, it may safely be averred, that the more sincere and the more disinterested they are, they only become the more ridiculous and the more odious. By David Hume Society Averred Odious Principles Absurd

If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance - the full range of what human beings, with all their flaws and foibles, might endure or create - if you enthroned principle above even reason, weren't you then abdicating the responsibilities of a thinking person? By Sonia Sotomayor Principle Passionately Inflexibly Indifferent Circumstance

If a principle exists it must be immutable, for that is what a principle is - a truth standing apart from the mood of the times. By Jeff Cooper Principle Immutable Times Exists Truth

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well. By George Washington Fixed Principle

In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence. By Socrates Principles Lead Pleasure Excellence Ruling

Principles don't change, people do. By Carlos Wallace Principles Change People

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There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity. By Aristotle. Activity Principle Kind Substance

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. By Thomas Paine Army Principles Penetrate Soldiers

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives. By Arthur Schopenhauer Fourfold Root Principle Sufficent Reason

Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve. By Bruce Lee Principle Abide Learn Dissolve Short

An evident principle runs through the whole program," Wilson had said. "It is the principle of justice to all peoples and nationalities, and their right to live on equal terms of liberty and safety with one another, whether they be strong or weak." Tears had come to Gus's eyes when he had read these words. "The people of the United States could act upon no other principle," Wilson had said. By Ken Follett Wilson Program Principle Evident Runs

Principles ... become modified in practice, by facts. By James F. Cooper Principles Practice Facts Modified

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. By Richard Feynman Fool Principle Easiest Person

If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications? To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, By Henry David Thoreau Principle Applications Acquainted Care Myriad

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them. By William Murray, 1St Earl Of Mansfield Rules Notes Principles Property Generally

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events. By Marie Curie Principle Events Beaten Persons

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior. By David Allen Direction Principles Behavior Purpose Juice

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient. By Benjamin Disraeli Free Principle Expedient Trade

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles. By Herbert Agar Man Principles Treat Opinions

Since when did you take to abstract philosophy? You're only a businessman, you're not qualified to deal with questions of principle, you ought to leave it to the experts By Ayn Rand Philosophy Abstract Businessman Principle Experts

Important principles may and must be inflexible. By Abraham Lincoln Important Inflexible Principles

Policy may involve politics but, principle is principal. By Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Policy Principle Principal Involve Politics

The principles you pursue becomes a worth when it reflects By Sunday Adelaja Reflects Principles Pursue Worth

The principle is this: that in everything worth having, even in every pleasure, there is a point of pain and tedium that must be survived, so that the pleasure may revive and endure. The joy of battle comes after the first fear of death; the joy of reading Virgil comes after the bore of learning him; the glow of the seabather comes after the icy shok of the sea bath. By G.k. Chesterton Pleasure Survived Endure Joy Principle

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be. By Raymond Charles Barker Life Principle Responds Thing Decided

Principle: To counter aimlessness, you must define your battles wisely, and build your life around winning them. By Todd Henry Principle Aimlessness Wisely Counter Define

There are principles which govern our life-they are the principles of Life. If our life is lived according to these principles all is well, and harmony reigns in place of vexation and struggle. By Henry Thomas Hamblin Life Principles Govern Lifethey Struggle

There's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one. By Dean Devlin Fine Line Standing Principle Hiding

The principles you know determines what you get By Sunday Adelaja Principles Determines

It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit. By Ernest Holmes Spirit Active Principle Understand

In politics there are no principles, just opportunities By Bill Press Principles Opportunities Politics

In short, it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete responsibility. By Dietrich Bonhoeffer Short Responsibility Easier Thing Point

They teach us that in school, matters of principle. I swear it's a plot to get us all slaughtered the day they graduate us out the door. It's their revenge, see? Here we are reading books in literature class about some banana who's only got one oar in the water to start with, and then he pops it out worrying about principles. By Guy Vanderhaeghe School Matters Teach Principle Principles

And that principle can be summed up in three simple words. Thoughts become words! By Mike Dooley Words Principle Summed Simple Thoughts

Reasons always came with a purpose, to give the appearance of a struggle between principle and desire. Principle had power only until you found what you had to have. By Tobias Wolff Reasons Purpose Desire Principle Give

My principles are about love and doing it because there's meaning and commitment. By Richelle Mead Commitment Principles Love Meaning

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance. By Neal Stephenson Nuance Condense Fact Vapor