Principles Quotes
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.
- John Templeton
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles
- Confucius
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In matters of style swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.
- Ray Kroc
Men must have righteous principles in the first place, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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One of the principles we teach in our programs is “If you shoot for the stars, you’ll at least hit the moon.” Poor people don’t even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they’re not successful.
- T. Harv Eker
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Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
- Franklin Roosevelt
The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.
- Stephen R. Covey
To abandon oneself to principles is really to die -- and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
- Albert Camus
