(921 quotes found)
“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
Anatole France
“I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.”
Everett Dirksen
“We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”
Ronald Reagan
“I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.”
Scott Adams
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
Jane Austen
“On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.”
Thomas Jefferson
“High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.”
Robert H. Schuller
“Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.”
Bill Watterson
“Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.”
John C. Maxwell
“If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that does”
Ernest Hemingway
