Principle Quotes

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Stands, Center

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

Goes, Pay, Generation

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Buddha

Good, Found, Seen

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson

Rock, Stand, Style

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Law, Rights

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington

Religion, Experience, Reason

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Mark Twain

Best, Prosperity, Protector

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mahatma Gandhi

Cannot, Moment, Compromise

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson

Money, Morality, Nations

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams

Alone, Lost, May

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
Thomas Jefferson

Parent, Force, Despotism

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
Thomas Jefferson

Mind, Nothing, American

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Worth, Name

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Him, Goes, Wherever

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Value, Number, Explain

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Here, American, Pay

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
Sai Baba

Same, Last, House

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.
Barack Obama

Children, Win, Friends

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert Camus

Evil, Reality, Cannot

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
Barack Obama

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine

Good, Temper, Virtue

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey

Perfect, Cannot, Until

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Napoleon Hill

Until, Desire, Obsession

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James

Nature, Human, Deepest

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
Barack Obama

Everybody, Security, Soon

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Anthony de Mello

Work, Religion, Politics

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.
Marcus Aurelius

Nothing, Different, Personal

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.
Stephen Hawking

Time, Why, Everyone

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli

Love, End, Born

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine

Temper, Virtue, Moderation

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