Principles Quotes - Page 22

• True love is impossible for those to whom principles mean little.

  Len Smith

  Mean, Love Is, Littles

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• In setting up a business under the name and meaning of the Golden Rule, I was publicly binding myself, in my business relations, to a principle which had been a real and intimate part of my family upbringing. Our idea was to make money and build business through serving the community with fair dealing and honest value.

  James Cash Penney

  Real, Names, Ideas

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• Lifting where we stand is a principle of power. Most of the priesthood bearers I know understand and live by this principle. They are eager to roll up their sleeves and go to work, whatever that work might be.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Might, Priesthood, Sleeves

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• We should be patient in developing and strengthening our testimonies. Rather than expecting immediate or spectacular manifestations, though they will come when needed, we should pray for a testimony, study the scriptures, follow the counsel of our prophet and other Church leaders, and live the principles of the gospel. Our testimonies then will grow and mature naturally, perhaps imperceptibly at times, until they become driving forces in our lives.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Leader, Church, Scripture

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• Regular reading of and talking about the Book of Mormon invite the power to resist temptation and to produce feelings of love within our families. And discussions about the doctrines and principles in the Book of Mormon provide opportunities for parents to observe their children, to listen to them, to learn from them, and to teach them.

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Book, Reading

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• An unusual thing happened after that great first vision. The Prophet Joseph received no additional communication for three years. However, he did not wonder, he did not question, he did not doubt the Lord. The Prophet Joseph patiently waited. The Prophet Joseph taught us the principle of patience-by example.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Communication, Unusual Things, Years

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• The negative principle negates. The positive principle creates. The negative principle doubts. The positive principle believes. The negative principle accepts defeat. The positive principle goes for victory.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Believe, Doubt, Victory

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The law of gratitude is the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Gratitude, Law, Opposites

  Wallace D. Wattles (2007). “The New Science of Getting Rich”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.

  Larry Winget

  People, Enjoy

  Larry Winget (2007). “It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault”, p.51, Penguin

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• Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Ethical Principles, Two, People

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• Using the phrase business ethics might imply that the ethical rules and expectations are somehow different in business than in other contexts. There really is no such thing as business ethics. There is just ethics and the challenge for people in business and every other walk in life to acknowledge and live up to basic moral principles like honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness and caring.

  Michael Josephson

  Honesty, Responsibility, Caring

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• No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume the role of a criminal and initiate the use of physical compulsion against any man. Men have the right to use physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. The ethical principle involved is simple and clear-cut: it is the difference between murder and self-defense.

  Ayn Rand

  Cutting, Simple, Men

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• Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

  Winston Churchill

  Suits, Circumstances

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right to 'a moral choice.' His suffering mocks the notion of the land of the free.

  John Pilger

  Land, Choices, Soldier

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• Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them decisively.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Mind, Firm

  Remarks on the Passing of Ronald Reagan, tape delivered on 11 June 2004

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• If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same opinion. Opinions change and can be easily altered by time, experience, and circumstance. But principles, purposes, spirituality, and faith are enduring values that can bind us as one despite disagreement or dispute.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Purpose, Matter, Spirit

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• Strength of character is certainly needed to face life in the world and to stand by right principles, especially in the age in which we live.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Character, Age, World

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• So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we act so that our hope becomes faith, that faith gives us power and enthusiasm for the principles of the gospel, which leads us to further action. Soon, we are lifted out of the state of hopelessness, and we begin to aid those around us by working to make the world a better place, rather than languishing in misery watching the world go by without us.

  David S. Baxter

  Giving, World, Enthusiasm

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• Hope, like faith, is a principle of action. It motivates and inspires. We do not sit in our armchairs and hope for hope; we get up and go to work.

  David S. Baxter

  Inspire, Action, Get Up

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• Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law...there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.

  Richard L. Evans

  Honesty, Real, Sacrifice

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• Let each of us accept the truth of the following statement and try to make it our most fundamental principle: Christ's teaching will never let us down, while worldly wisdom always will. Christ Himself said that this sort of wisdom was like a house with nothing but sand as its foundation, while His own was like a building with solid rock as its foundation.

  Vincent de Paul

  Teaching, Rocks, House

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• There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Firsts, Debate, Advocacy

  "Justice Kennedy holds court in school" by Terry Frieden, www.cnn.com. January 28, 2002.

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• Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.

  Paul Tillich

  Command Not, Justice, Negative

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• I would not give my rotating field discovery for a thousand inventions, however valuable... A thousand years hence, the telephone and the motion picture camera may be obsolete, but the principle of the rotating magnetic field will remain a vital, living thing for all time to come.

  Nikola Tesla

  Discovery, Years, Giving

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• God is not a respecter of persons but a respecter of principles that are in his word.

  Matthew Ashimolowo

  Persons

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