#principles

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. ↗

— J. Donald Walters

#friendship #getting #happiness #mere #more

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. ↗

— Alan Watts

#believe #born #defend #estates #heirs

Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#devotion #display #govern #independence #laws

I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same. ↗

— Edward Whitacre, Jr.

#anything #business #cars #i #i can

You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#core #creating #environment #getting #government

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring. ↗

— Prince William

#genuine #guiding #honest #life #principles

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society. ↗

— George Soros

#foundation #free #had #i #made

The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#executive #free #legislative #lost #nominated

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes. ↗

— William Hague

#change #changes #i #i think #modern

This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#achieve #control #deliberate #deplorable #effects