Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Our leadership principles often have tension in them. And I think that’s actually a good thing and it makes sense.
The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.
I just read ‘The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.’ To be married 25 years, you have to put as much energy as I put into being an actor or being a great football player into being a better husband and a better father.
My mum’s got morals and principles, and I’ve been brought up with those ideas and beliefs.
I discovered the foundations of Ayurveda and Siddha, and more importantly I found that all of Western control systems engineering principles had actually been discovered by the great ancient Indian sages, 5,000 years ago.
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.
We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.
We should not fear what our country was built on: a set of Judeo-Christian principles.
I’ve laid down my set of principles, so I will not force government-run health care on anyone.
It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.
If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are, in fact, not principles at all.
A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.
The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.
A family film is a very particular and explicit form. Family films typically include adult principles that are moral, but they should be as intelligent, funny, and intriguing as any other film.
The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants and constrain their creativity.
One of the core organizing principles of my life is that success comes through a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.
I knew that if we were going to actually defeat Harry Reid, we had to have a candidate who would offer a sharp policy contrast. Someone who would not just pay lip service to limited government principles, but had a solid record of voting that way time and again. I’m that candidate.
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Liberals have been committed to the principles of human rights, international stability, and international justice. They have also sought international solutions to those problems which have demanded collective attention.
Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history.
A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.
I am very loyal to my principles.
We’ve always had this experience that things take long, but I’m 100% convinced that our principles will in the end prevail. No one knew how the Cold War would end at the time, but it did end. This is within our living experience… I’m surprised at how fainthearted we sometimes are and how quickly we lose courage.
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.
Race doesn’t matter to the people who are violating our constitutional principles, but they make it matter to keep us divided.
If we want conservative principles to win the battle of ideas, we have to defend them openly, with passion and conviction.
As conservatives, we support free market principles and believe the private sector provides solutions that the government cannot.
It takes a village to earn a spot representing your country, and I know that every single person who helped me get to the Olympics was also touched by the dream. The web of inspiration is incredible. Because of this, I know that the core principles and spirit of what the Olympics stand for are worth protecting.
I went to a seminar early in my career on the craft of storytelling by Robert McKee. It was really life altering. There are basic principles on how to craft an engaging story and he covers them well. He’s got a book out, ‘Story,’ that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in improve their storytelling.
I don’t compromise my principles for politics.
Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.
If we can employ free market principles, we can help everyone.
George W. Bush is not preoccupied with his legacy – nor with his popularity. He never has been. He has always led based on core conviction and strong principles and has believed that time and distance would allow for context.
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People’s Charter were in the habit of assembling.
And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
The stronger you stand on your principles, the easier it is to fight. The first time, it’s tough, but the second time, it’s always easier. You just have to push for your rights.
In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
The American principles of democracy expresses the deepest values of the Sharia both structurally and in the government… Sharia requires us Muslims anywhere to abide by the law of the land.
If principles don’t determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.
We look to our pastors and priests and rabbis and counselors of all kinds to testify of the enduring principles upon which our society is built: honesty, charity, integrity and family.
When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity.
The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs.
America is a nation founded by immigrants and built on the ideal that anyone can be an American if he or she believes in the principles and values of the Constitution.
Politics is about winning. If you don’t win, you don’t get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.
Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice.
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.
Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.
You know some people are all about talk. I’m about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I’ve had, I’ve had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer.
I hope I’m building a record of being a good team player and not just standing for my principles but being willing to work for them. I think when you do that and you work really hard, people take notice.
