Principles Quotes - Page 21

• If you always support the correct principles then you will never get the wrong results!

  Andrew Johnson

  Support, Results, Ifs

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• For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.

  Tom DeLay

  Party, Ideas, Leader

  Farewell Address to House of Representatives, delivered 8 June 2006

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• Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy.

  Dante Alighieri

  Oneness, Unity, Needs

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• The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Party, Political, Socialism

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• When you teach, you learn." "And I really don't go for religions of any kind. ...I reject them all....There were principles I thought were very important.

  Helen Suzman

  Important, Kind, Teach

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• It's not the principles that kill you in the end. It's the books.

  Michael Swanwick

  Book, Ends

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• Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Belief, Annoying, Good Things

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “The Secret of Life: Commonsense Advice for the Uncommon Woman”, p.16, Ballantine Books

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• Ignoring platforms that have gained critical mass is a great way to look slow and out-of-touch. Do not cling to nostalgia. Do not put your principles above the reality of the market. Do not be a snob.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Reality, Looks, Way

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.

  Garrison Keillor

  People, Frozen, Pumps

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• As I have indicated some time ago, I intend to divest my shareholding when I leave the Club. In doing so, my overriding principle is that I shall do what I believe is best for the future of Celtic. I have also indicated my intention that my shareholding will be made available to be held broadly amongst the supporters and existing shareholders of the Club. I believe that this should produce the best structure of ownership for the Club and the Company.

  Fergus McCann

  Believe, Clubs, Intention

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• In fact, the underlying principle of the baroque is the idea of transformation, of movement, and animals becoming man, and man becoming animals, and mythology. It was a way to inspire pre-Christian character.

  Camille Henrot

  Christian, Character, Animal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Before we're Americans, we're Christians. And so we have to be informed by a certain moral sense, which means that we need to speak up for moral principle and for gospel principle regardless of who that offends.

  Russell D. Moore

  Christian, Mean, Needs

  "Round-Table On Refugees: How People Of Faith Are Navigating The Crisis". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 21, 2015.

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• American nation was not founded on political principles. This nation was founded on spiritual principles.

  Marco Rubio

  Spiritual, Political, Nations

  Source: www.npr.org

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• PRE. For your dedication and loyalty to your principles and beliefs. For your love,warmth and friendship. For your family and friends. You are missed by so many and you will never be forgotten.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Loyalty, Dedication, Family And Friends

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• Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.

  Russell Kirk

  Innovation, Progress, Torches

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• [T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave this nation birth, are older than anything else in the country's soul, and yet retain the power to make us young again with the vigor of virtue and the zeal for justice.

  Alan Keyes

  Country, People, Justice

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• To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.

  Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi

  Prejudice, Whim, Lays

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• Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Practice, Sometimes, Unfair

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• To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

  Victor Hugo

  Lying, Fighting, Revolutionary Leaders

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6978, Delphi Classics

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• If it's a principle, it's a winner. If it's a tactic, it's a loser.

  Zig Ziglar

  Tactics, Loser, Winner

  Zig Ziglar, Krish Dhanam, Bryan Flanagan, Jim Savage (2004). “Top Performance: How to Develop Excellence in Yourself and Others”, p.70, Revell

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• The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

  Edmund Burke

  Ideas, People, Inheritance

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.109

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• By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives.

  Stephen Covey

  Creating, Focus, Peaceful

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.449, Mango Media Inc.

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• The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.

  John Calvin

  Children, Exercise, Giving

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• Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Details, Faithfulness

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1892). “Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...”

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• When the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers, he does a complete work in them. He puts into their minds, wills and hearts a gracious, supernatural principle which fills them with a holy desire to live to God. The whole life and being of holiness lies in this. This is the new creation.

  John Owen

  Lying, Heart, Mind

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