Principles

Success is the ability to rise above principle. – Gerald Barzan

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. – Henry Ward Beecher

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. – James Fenimore Cooper

You cant live principals you cant understand. – Stephen Covey

The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. – Albert Einstein

Values provide perspective in the best of times and worst. – Charles A. Garfield

Policy is the people you work with. – William Gaskill

Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. – G. W. F. Hegel

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn. – Henrik Ibsen

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson

Its easy to have principles when youre rich. The important thing is to have principles when youre poor. – Ray Kroc

Obey the principles without being bound by them. – Bruce Lee

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator. – Percy Wynham Lewis

People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. – Martin Luther

Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom. – Edward R. Lyman

A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones. – Alasdair Chalmers Macintyre