#principle

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation. ↗

— John Witherspoon

#conversation #exemplary #inward #justified #men

But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#allegorical #arbitrary #attaches #be true #categories

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#principles #change

I'm keenly aware of the Principle of Priority, which states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#principle-of-priority #priorities #urgent #art

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#being #come #dream #must #principle

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#brings #challenges #courage #dignity #experience

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. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#advisable #affairs #business #conduct #economist

I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles. ↗

— Dee Snider

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Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed. ↗

— DeForest Soaries

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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#forced #his #inevitably #lie #man