Principles Quotes - Page 15

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

Albert Camus

Graciousness, Bigs, Big Things

Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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Intrapreneurs work and lead with the Producer mindset. They run their department, team, or company with an abundance mentality, an attachment to true principles, and a fearless and informed faith in people and quality.

Oliver DeMille

Running, Team, Attachment

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Of these five vital principles, Love is the foremost. It is Love that flows as the under-current for the other four values. How does it flow this way? When Love is associated with our thoughts, it manifests itself as Truth. When Love is associated with feelings, it produces Peace. When Love animates actions, it results in Right Action. When Love is combined with understanding it becomes Non-violence. Therefore whenever you feel angry, think of love, develop thoughts of love in your heart. You will have peace.

Sathya Sai Baba

Heart, Love Is, Thinking

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If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

Henry David Thoreau

Familiar, Application, Ifs

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Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

Clement Greenberg

Art, Quality, Matter

Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.133, Beacon Press

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There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

Hurt, War, Fellows

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It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.

Miyamoto Musashi

Art, War, Mind

Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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I'm not trying to convert the entire nation of Israel and the entire nation of Palestine to Christianity. But at least if you can educate them about the ideology of love, the ideology of forgiveness, the ideology of grace. Those principles are great regardless, but we can't deny they came from Christianity as well.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

Israel, Grace, Trying

"'They Need to Be Liberated From Their God'". Interview with Matthew Kaminski, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 7, 2010.

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I tell people this over and over again: don't attach your faith to people. People will come and go. People will disappoint you. People will divulge dark secrets. People will turn out to be the opposite of what you thought. Allah is perfect. His Messenger (peace be upon him) is a perfect example, and the religion is a perfect methodology. Attach yourself to the principles instead of the people. That way no Shaykh going wild or role model going rogue will be able to shake your faith.

Omar Suleiman

Dark, Opposites, People

FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from Sep 10, 2015

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... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

Ignatius of Loyola

Believe, White, Black

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The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.

William L. Marcy

New York, Successful, Practice

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Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

J. C. Watts

Opportunity, Vote, Republican

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Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Giving Up, Needs, Ifs

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Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these same people are constantly insinuating that you're cheap. (It reminded me of medicine, another area where you shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, who make you feel guilty for questioning a bill.) Construction workers are the blue-collar version of the snooty salespeople at Gucci who make $8 an hour but look down on you if you balk at a $400 alligator wallet.

Margo Kaufman

Construction Workers, Blue, Medicine

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There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Simple, Dwelling, Speech

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.399

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Always get back to your core principles.

Mike Krzyzewski

Get Back, Core

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I wanted to come to Washington, D.C. and help be a transformative President. And I think history, when they look back, will say this is a fellow who knew how to make decisions, and made some tough ones, stood by them, wasn't driven by the latest opinion poll, but was driven by some core principles from which he would not deviate.

George W. Bush

Thinking, Decision, President

Interview, www.politico.com. May 13, 2008.

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Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?

Michael R. Burch

Taken, Depth, Height

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The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

Henry David Thoreau

Brother, Men, Iron

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If you are animated by right principles, and are fully awakened to the true dignity of life, the subject of amusements may be left to settle itself.

Thornton T. Munger

Amusement, May, Dignity

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I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

Lydia Davis

Hurt, People, Feelings

"Long Story Short" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2014.

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To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

Michael Shermer

Agents, Moral, Accepting

Michael Shermer (2005). “The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule”, p.16, Macmillan

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Realizing who we are and what we may become assures us that with God nothing really is impossible. From the time we learn that Jesus wants us for a Sunbeam until we learn more fully the basic principles of the gospel, we are taught to strive for perfection. It is not new to us then to talk of the importance of achievement. The difficulty arises when inflated expectations of the world alter our definition of greatness.

Howard W. Hunter

Jesus, Greatness, Expectations

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Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.

Barbara Johnson

Hate, Tickets, Chaos

Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.82, Zondervan

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A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Henry David Thoreau

Writing, Self, Risk

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