PRINCIPLE

Related Subjects: Idea, Ideals, Philosophy

1. It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.—ALFRED ADLER
   

2. I have linked my life with principles that will not die.—WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
   

3. Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.—HEGEL
   

4. Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.—W. S. LANDOR, Imaginary Conversations
   

5. Important principles may and must be flexible.—LINCOLN
   

6. Ez to my princerples, I glory In hevin' nothin' o' the sort.—LOWELL, The Biglow Papers
   

7. Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
   

8. Search men's governing principles and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.—MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
   

9. Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.—MARK TWAIN
   

10. Their feet through faithless leather meet the dirt;
    And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.—EDWARD YOUNG, Epistle to Mr. Pope