Principles Quotes

Principles are deep, fundamental truths…they are tightly woven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty, and strength throughout the fabric of life.

Stephen Covey

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Victor Hugo

Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

Stephen Covey

We may make mistakes - but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

Franklin D Roosevelt

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Abraham Lincoln

There are three constants in life - change, choice and principles.

Stephen Covey

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Albert Einstein

Perfect wisdom has four parts: Wisdom, the principle of doing things aright. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Plato

Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Let your thoughts be ruled by principle, and then live up to your thoughts.

Wallace D Wattles

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

John Quincy Adams

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Aesop

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. We need to be careful, upon achieving happiness, not to lose the virtues which have produced it.

Harry Harrison

Our principles are the springs of our actions; our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

Philip Skelton