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#principles

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #principles




Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.


Confucius


#principles #life

Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles!


Robert Bolt


#morals #principles #values #life

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.


P.G. Wodehouse


#principles #regret #remorse #love

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated


Alan Wilson Watts


#principles #truth #love

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.


G.K. Chesterton


#simplicity #life

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.


Mark Twain


#except #force #principles #real #well-fed

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.


Jim Hightower


#dissent #especially #ever #forceful #including

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.


Napoleon Bonaparte


#ambition #bad #character #depends #direct

There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.


Martin Buber


#being #between #conflict #fellow-men #i

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.


Albert Camus


#contrary #die #impossible #love #oneself






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