1,227 Quotes About Principles

  • Author Michael Moore
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    I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.

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  • Author Nelson Mandela
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    You mustn't compromise your principles, but you mustn't humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.

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  • Author Norm Macdonald
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    They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

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  • Author Peter Medawar
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    It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

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  • Author Scott Meyers
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    Lightstone's Convolution Principle: The concurrent development of multiple features operating on intersecting componentry will take longer to complete than the sum of the schedule estimations for each.

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  • Author Thomas S. Monson
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    Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

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