1,227 Quotes About Principles

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.

Individuals transform when there is a shift in the principle which orients their life from one of gaining satisfaction to one of expressing the satisfaction they've already got.

Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.