A new principle
is an inexhaustible source of new views.
-Luc de Clapier, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Principle is used to alleviate the imposition of the mind upon our affairs
and thus reduce the power of suggestion.
-Kenneth G. Mills
Principles and rules are intended
to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.
-Karl von Clauswitz
The value of a principle is the number of things will explain. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The solution to any problem
is always contained in the principle that underlies it.
-Carleton Whitehead
It is not the principle,
it is the making use of the principle which is the main thing.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Once possessed of the principle,
it is equally easy to make forty or forty thousand applications of it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let your principles be brief and fundamental.
-Marcus Aurelius
Principles are the simplicity
on the far side of complexity.
-Stephen R. Covey
Principles are like lighthouses.
-Stephen Covey
Principles never change.
-Christian Larson
Expedients are for the hour,
but principles are for the ages.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Principles, like troops of the line,
are undisturbed, and stand fast.
-Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot;
it will succeed where diplomatic management would fall:
it is neither the Rhine, the Channel, nor the ocean that can arrest its progress:
it will march on the horizon of the world, and it will conquer.
-Thomas Paine
Establish unto thyself principles of action;
and see that thou ever act according to them.
First know that thy principles are just,
and then be thou inflexible in the path of them.
-Akhenaton
A principle is a principle
and in no case can it be watered down
because of our incapacity to live in its practice.
We have to strive to achieve it,
and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.
-Mohandas Gandhi
You must know it is no easy thing
for a principle to become a man's own
unless each day he maintain it and hear it maintained,
as well as work it out in life.
-Epictetus
By following a certain principle in life
one gains a power which comes as an intoxication,
but when breaks that principle
one feels the want of that intoxication, which is power.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Change your opinions, keep to your principles;
change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
-Victor Hugo
Never compromise
on your fundamental principles.
-Sivananda
Never, absolutely never,
compromise your principles.
-Mary Kay Ash
When fighting for a principle,
be careful that you don't violate a greater one.
-A. S. Vickers
I have very set and consistent principles,
but I am flexible on tactics - I like to get the job done.
-Madeline Albright
Be flexible, but stick to your principles. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Never be enslaved by principles.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Principles are to guide one's life,
not to restrict it.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Too much principle
is often more harmful than too little.
-Ellen Glasgow
Even when our principle is right,
our application may be wrong.
-N. Sri Ram
It's always easier to fight for one's principles
that to live up to them.
-Alfred Adler
The mystic lays no stress on principles,
he allows everyone to have his own principles,
each according to his point of view and evolution.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Philosophy dealing with the principles of things
must come to perceive the Principle of all these principles.
-Aurobindo Ghose
All great things of humanity
have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
-Ernest Renan
