#principles

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#change #choice #constants #principles #three

Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#conduct #democracy #desire #ever #feel

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place. ↗

— Karen Hughes

#also #better #better place #conservative #could

If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light. ↗

— Max von Laue

#arrangement #basic #basic principles #corresponding #decisive

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#better #else #i #like #persons

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. ↗

— William McKinley

#differences #our #policies #principles

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty. ↗

— Edmund Pendleton

#battle #hopes #our #peace #pervaded

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#alas #contentment #grandeur #happiness #height

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God. ↗

— John Strachan

#carry #colonies #confer #distinguished #free

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#anvil #everyday #hammered #honed #living