Win The Life

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.-Joseph Smith, Jr.

 

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'-Jimmy Carter

 

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.-Jimmy Carter

 

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

 

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.-Garrett Hardin

 

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.-Davy Crockett

 

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.-Davy Crockett

 

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.-Alfred Adler

 

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.-Alfred Adler

 

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.-Ann Landers

 

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

 

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.-Thomas S. Monson

 

My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring.-Prince William

 

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.-Anne Rice

 

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.-David Herbert Lawrence

 

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.-Jawaharlal Nehru

 

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 

I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.-Jim Elliot

 

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.-Tom Stoppard

 

Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.-Barbara Jordan

 

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.--Bill Bowerman

 

The United States and Israel have a unique relationship based on our mutual commitment to democracy, freedom, and peace. Therefore, just as our commitment to these principles must be steadfast, so must our support for Israel.-John Boehner

 

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.-Muhammad Ali Jinnah

 

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.-Mitt Romney

 

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.-Mitt Romney

 

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.-Georg C. Lichtenberg

 

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.-George Jean Nathan

 

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.-James K. Polk

 

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.-Oriana Fallaci

 

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.-Oriana Fallaci

 

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.-B. R. Ambedkar

 

I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be.-Paul Ryan

 

Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.-Al Sharpton

 

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.-Lawrence Kohlberg

 

Only to the extent that men desire peace and brotherhood can the world be made better. No peace even though temporarily obtained, will be permanent, whether to individuals or nations, unless it is built upon the solid foundation of eternal principles.-David O. McKay

 

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood.-Harriet Ann Jacobs

 

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.-Michael Porter

 

Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.-William McKinley

 

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.-Giotto di Bondone

 

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.-Adolf Hitler

 

I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.-Jim Evans

 

Just as predatory animals follow a similar general design and behave in similar ways, so organizations, especially those in competition with one another, must follow certain design principles if they are to succeed and prevail.-Robert Shea

 

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.-Caleb Cushing

 

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

 

The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.-Harold H. Greene

 

What does it mean to be an American? While each of us may have our own specific answer to that question, we likely can agree on the basic principles of America: freedom, equal opportunity, and rights accompanied by responsibilities.-Ben Nelson

 

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.-John Boyd Orr

 

Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future.-Ron Lewis

 

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.-Victoria Woodhull

 

It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.-Kamisese Mara

 

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.-Miroslav Vitous

 

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.-Michael Polanyi

 

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.-William Burroughs

 

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

 

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.-Robert Toombs

 

You are Americans. You love this country. Together we are entrusted with the principles that represent mankind's greatest political and social achievement.-Paul Tsongas

 

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.-Godfrey Reggio

 

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

 

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.-Jonathan Mayhew

 

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.-Karel Capek

 

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

 

Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.-David Chalmers

 

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.-Noah Webster

 

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.-Nicolas Malebranche

 

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown.-Joseph Butler

 

The United States is not a nation based upon race, creed, or religion - we are a nation based upon our loyalty and allegiance to our country and her principles.-Jim Ryun

 

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be forced to create a new official faith and new moral principles which will be binding on its citizens.-Christopher Dawson

 

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.-Christopher Dawson

 

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.-Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

 

There is a certain logic to events that pushes you along a certain path. You go along the path that feels the most true, and most according to the principles that are guiding you, and that's the way the decisions are made.-Michael Nesmith

 

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.-Henry Bolingbroke

 

The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the rights and responsibilities of the parties, establishes principles and operates to the advantage of all concerned.-Charles E. Wilson

 

The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence.-Simon Greenleaf

 

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.-George Henry Lewes

 

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.-Benjamin Whichcote

 

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.-Pat Metheny

 

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of universal suffrage for women and men.-Clara Zetkin

 

We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets.-Patrick J. Kennedy

 

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.-Robert Walpole

 

The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.-Charles Hodge

 

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.-Walter Pater

 

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.-James D. Watson

 

Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader.-Bianca Jagger

 

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.-John Rawls

 

In stating the principles which regulate exchangeable value and price, we should carefully distinguish between those variations which belong to the commodity itself, and those which are occasioned by a variation in the medium in which value is estimated, or price expressed.-David Ricardo

 

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.-Jeffrey Sachs

 

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas.-Dave Eggers

 

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.-Michael Shermer

 

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.-Salvatore Quasimodo

 

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

 

I have always adhered to two principles. The first one is to train hard and get in the best possible physical condition. The second is to forget all about the other fellow until you face him in the ring and the bell sounds for the fight.-Rocky Marciano

 

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.-Gustave Courbet

 

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.-Albrecht Durer

 

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.-Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

 

If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.-Elena Kagan

 

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.-Madeleine Albright

 

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.-James Otis

 

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.-James Otis

 

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.-Hakeem Olajuwon

 

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.-Pierre de Coubertin

 

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.-Jesse Helms

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.-Jesse Helms

 

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.-John Acton

 

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.-Hans Hofmann

 

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

 

I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.-John McCain

 

The way you have bipartisan negotiations, you sit down across the table, as we did with Ted Kennedy, as I've done with many other members, and you say, 'OK, here's what I want, here's what you want. We'll adhere to your principles, but we'll make concessions.'-John McCain

 

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.-Kofi Annan

 

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.-George Lucas

 

But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.-Pat Robertson

 

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.-Ernest Renan

 

Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?-Stephen Ambrose

 

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!-William Lloyd Garrison

 

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.-Jerzy Kosinski

 

The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based.-Theodor Herzl

 

If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and conduct. Invest at least 30% managing those with authority over you, and 15% managing your peers.-Dee Hock

 

What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction.-Dee Hock

 

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.-Gottfried Leibniz

 

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.-Marilyn Ferguson