Principles Quotes - Page 31

• One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.

  Guy Finley

  Simple, Practice, Important

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• Horsemanship is the one art for which it seems one needs only practice. However, practice without true principles is nothing other than routine, the fruit of which is a strained and unsure execution, a false diamond which dazzles semi-connoisseurs often more impressed by the accomplishments of the horse than the merit of the horseman.

  Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere

  Art, Horse, Practice

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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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its own particular way of life and manner of speaking, feeling, thinking, and behaving. These distinctive features are the essence of nationality, the product of a nation's entire history and conditions of existence. Every nation, like every individual, is of necessity what it is, and has an unquestionable right to be itself. So-called national rights consist precisely of this.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Character, Thinking, Rights

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Marshall Shatz (1990). “Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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