1,227 Quotes About Principles

Rebuke them that violates the principles of kingdom of God

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances. The superior man espouses events and circumstances in order to guide them. If there were principles and fixed laws, nations would not change them as we change our shirts and a man can not be expected to be wiser than an entire nation.

If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force.

In this country our principles should not be silent.

Your success is determined by the principles upon which you live your life.

Principles? Principles won’t do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags—rags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; you want a deliberate belief.

When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things - a principle that he actually lived by.

Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.

All battles should be based on principles. And in a battle of principles, it is not the size of the adversary that matters. It is the size of the principle.