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Motivational Principal Quotes

May these quotes about Principal inspire and motivate you.

The Principal Causes of Our Suffering are
Our Past, and Our Expectations and Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology

The Principal Causes of Our Suffering
are Our Expectations and Our Assumptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer


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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie


In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson

Never put passion before principle.
Even if win, you lose.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

Tolerance is the first principle of community;
it is the spirit which conserves
the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller


 

It is necessary for us to understand that
the only Active Principle is Spirit.
- Ernest Holmes

Mind exists as a Principle in the universe,
just as electricity exists as a principle.
- Ernest Holmes

The Science of Mind is intensely practical
because it teaches us how to use
the Mind Principle for definite purposes,
such as helping those who are sick, impoverished, or unhappy.
- Ernest Holmes

Know that the true essence of the Golden Rule
is always being compassionate, kind,
generous, and being in service to others.
Compelling others to behave as you wish
them to behave in the name of the
Golden Rule is a corruption of a sacred principle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
- Thomas Jefferson

I have called this principle,
by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved,
by the term of Natural Selection.
- Charles Darwin

It is incumbent on every generation
to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would
save one-half the wars of the world.
- Thomas Jefferson

If there is one principle more deeply rooted
in the mind of every American,
it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
- Thomas Jefferson

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.
- Thomas Jefferson

There is no principle worth the name
if it is not wholly good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anger is something that each one of us has experienced -
some of us only occasionally, some almost daily.
Can we eliminate all anger? Probably not.
We will always have expectations,
and those expectations will often be unmet.
Disappointment is the principle cause of anger.
When we are disappointed, we look for someone to blame.
Declaring someone to be at fault is the nature of anger.
Anger is always directed at someone -
possibly toward God or the non-specific "they,"
but at some animate entity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In principle, the great religions of the world
do not differ as much as they appear to.
- Ernest Holmes

I sincerely believe that banking establishments
are more dangerous than standing armies,
and that the principle of spending money
to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding,
is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
- Thomas Jefferson

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle,
that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail,
that will to be rightful must be reasonable;
that the minority possess their equal rights,
which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle,
gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups.
A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
- The Buddha

A principle is the expression of perfection,
and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection,
we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Eureka.
- Archimedes - upon discovering the scientific principle
of displacement while on his bathtub.

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus

Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb

You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu

Look at everything as though you were seeing it
either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith

Recognizing my blindness is the first step
toward regaining my sight.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
- John Dryden

A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln

All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker

Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous

Today is the first and last day of forever.
- Edward, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.
- Alfred North Whitehead

The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein

Self-trust is the first secret of success.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
- William Shakespeare

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus

When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus

The first step in the evolution of ethics
is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
- Albert Schweitzer

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts.
If you don't control what you think,
you can't control what you do.
Simply, self-discipline enables you
to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill

A leader is not one who says, "Follow me."
A leader is one who says, "I'll go first."
- Neale Donald Walsch

Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Give me six hours to chop down a tree
and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln

If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg

No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus

During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard

The first step towards the solution
of any problem is optimism.
- John Baines

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is
breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks,
and starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain

Non-violence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If he's first class, I'm traveling steerage.
- the movie Libeled Lady (1936)

Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy,
the first question I ask myself is:
is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
- Rita Rudner


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