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Principles Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Principles
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
- Abraham Lincoln
Man tends to treat all of his opinions as principles.
- Herbert Sebastian Agar
Voting is an expression of three key life principles -
CHOICE, INTENT, and ACTION.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man is usually more careful of his money
than he is of his principles.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Think simple" as my old master used to say -
meaning reduce the whole of its parts
into the simplest terms,
getting back to first principles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Principle Quotes and Sayings
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
It is necessary for us to understand that
the only Active Principle is Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes
The Science of Mind is intensely practical
because it teaches us how to use
the Mind Principle for definite purposes,
such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.
- Ernest Holmes
Mind exists as a Principle in the universe,
just as electricity exists as a principle.
- Ernest Holmes
Know that the true essence of the Golden Rule
is always being compassionate, kind,
generous, and being in service to others.
Compelling others to behave as you wish
them to behave in the name of the
Golden Rule is a corruption of a sacred principle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In principle, the great religions of the world
do not differ as much as they appear to.
- Ernest Holmes
Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller
I have called this principle,
by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,
by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles Darwin
There is no principle worth the name
if it is not wholly good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger is something that each one of us has experienced -
some of us only occasionally, some almost daily.
Can we eliminate all anger? Probably not.
We will always have expectations,
and those expectations will often be unmet.
Disappointment is the principle cause of anger.
When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
Anger is always directed at someone -
possibly toward God or the non-specific "they,"
but at some animate entity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Matters Quotes and Sayings
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How different our lives are when we
really know what is deeply important to us,
and keeping that picture in mind,
we manage ourselves each day
to be and to do what really matters most
- Stephen Covey
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters
cannot be trusted with important matters.
- Albert Einstein
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters
cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein
Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters in the end.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
To love what you do and feel that it matters,
how on earth could anything be more fun.
- Katherine Graham
In matters of truth and justice,
there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
It is the journey that matters, in the end
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Sometimes you get the results you wanted,
sometimes you don't.
What matters is that you did your best.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is not the magnitude of our actions
but the amount of love
that is put into them that matters.
- Mother Teresa
It doesn't matter who my father was.
It matters who I remember he was.
- Anne Sexton
It's not what happens to you,
but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus
Before you can forgive others,
you must be a person whose forgiveness matters.
Before you can have gratitude for your life,
you must believe that your life has value.
Before your choices have value,
you must feel that you yourself have value.
Before you can dream a great dream for your future,
you have to believe that your future matters.
Before you can build positive habits of resolve and commitment,
before you can begin to live into the Japanese proverb,
"Fall seven times, stand up eight,"
you must believe that your life matters.
Before you can celebrate your life, you must Honor it.
And, before you can feel unity with,
and Honor toward, Spirit and all creation,
you must Honor yourself to feel worthy of that unity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In all matters of opinion,
our adversaries are insane.
- Oscar Wilde
Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything.
It's the time we spent together that matters,
not how we left it.
- Trey Parker
It's YOUR time - it's YOUR life -
YOU get to choose how you use it. T
here is no way that your life is "supposed" to be.
Your parents had their vision for your life.
Your boss, your spouse, your church, your friends,
and even the family next door have their ideas
of how you should live your life.
What about YOUR vision for your life?
What do YOU want?
YES, it matters what you want.
YES you can have what you want.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lies Quotes and Sayings
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment.
It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment,
full effort is full victory.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The way lies in softness and patience,
as the softest water cuts through the hardest rock.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom lies in being bold.
- Robert Frost
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal,
and not in reaching it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford
The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a persons determination.
- Tommy Lasorda
Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer
Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement
and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
The difference between work and play lies 100%
in the attitude of the participant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
- Epictetus
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
As human beings, our greatness lies
not so much in being able to remake the world -
as in being able to remake ourselves.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank
