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• Principle: A fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behaviour or for a chain of reasoning. Oxford Dictionary
• Principle: A basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens or works. Cambridge Dictionary
• Principle: An accepted or professed rule of action or conduct. Cambridge Dictionary
• Principle: A moral rule or belief that helps you know what is right and wrong and that influences your actions.  Merriam Webster
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Principles are objective and external, while values are subjective and internal

• Principles are like a compass. A compass has a true north that is objective and external, that reflects natural laws or principles, as opposed to values which are subjective and internal. Stephen Covey
• Principles are natural laws that are external to us and that ultimately control the consequences of our actions. Values are internal and subjective and represent that which we feel strongest about in guiding our behavior. Stephen Covey
• Everyone has values; even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people’s behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors. Stephen Covey
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Principles govern consequences while values drive behaviors

• While values drive behaviors, principles govern consequences. Stephen Covey
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Principles represent natural laws that control the consequences of our actions …

• It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. Cecil deMille
• There are principles that govern human effectiveness – natural laws in the human dimension that are just as real, just as unchanging and unarguably “there” as laws such as gravity are in the physical dimension. Stephen Covey
• Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences. Stephen Covey
• I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature’s laws, and that all societies will succeed or fail in the degrees that they operate consistently with these laws. Ray Dalio
• Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences when we ignore them. But because these principles apply to everyone, whether or not they are aware, this limitation is universal. And the more we know of correct principles, the greater is our personal freedom to act wisely. Stephen Covey
• I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature’s laws, and that all societies will succeed or fail in the degrees that they operate consistently with these laws. Ray Dalio
• I believe there are an infinite number of laws of the universe and that all progress or dreams achieved come from operating in a way that’s consistent with them. These laws and the principles of how to operate in harmony with them have always existed. We were given these laws by nature. Man didn’t and can’t make them up. He can only hope to understand them and use them to get what he wants. Ray Dalio
• Truth — more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality — is the essential foundation for producing good outcomes. Ray Dalio
• The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws. Martin Luther King Jr.
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… as these principles illustrate

• Natural laws (like gravity) and principles (like respect, honesty, kindness, integrity, and fairness) control the consequences of our choices. Just as you get bad air and bad water when you consistently violate the environment, so also is trust (the glue of relationships) destroyed when you’re consistently unkind and dishonest to people. Stephen Covey
• Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of modesty, moderation, compassion, and consideration (not just one society’s rules and regulations), the wisdom of seeing things as they are (not of merely collecting “facts” about them), and the happiness of being in harmony with the Way (which has nothing to do with self- righteous “spiritual” obsessions and fanaticism). And you will live lightly, spontaneously, and effortlessly.  Benjamin Hoff
• Integrate these principles and habits deep within your nature; into your basic character: integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, simplicity, modesty. Stephen Covey
• Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. Confucius
• Examples of principles include the law of the harvest (You reap whatever you sow in the long term), thrift, industry, trust, saving for future needs, self- reliance, reaching out and helping other people, etc. Stephen Covey
• If you look at all enduring philosophies, religions and thoughts, you will find principles such as integrity, compassion, trust, honesty, accountability and others at their core. Stephen Covey
• No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. Patrick Henry

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Principles are universal and timeless

• Principles are universal —that is, they transcend culture and geography. They’re also timeless, they never change—principles such as fairness, kindness, respect, honesty, integrity, service, contribution. Stephen Covey
• If principles can become dated, they’re not principles. Warren Buffett
• Opinion is a flitting thing but Truth outlasts the Sun. Emily Dickinson
• Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Henry Ward Beecher
• There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles. Stephen Covey

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Principles are beacons that guide our actions

• Principles connect your values to your actions; they are beacons that guide your actions, and help you successfully deal with the laws of reality. It is to your principles that you turn when you face hard choices. Ray Dalio
• The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles. Raheel Farooq

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Principles can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances

• Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions. Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. Principles are ways of successfully dealing with the laws of nature or the laws of life. Those who understand more of them and understand them well know how to interact with the world more effectively than those who know fewer of them or know them less well. Different principles apply to different aspects of life—e.g., there are “skiing principles” for skiing, “parenting principles” for parenting, “management principles” for managing, “investment principles” for investing, etc—and there are over-arching “life principles” that influence our approaches to all things. And, of course, different people subscribe to different principles that they believe work best. Ray Dalio

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Principles are at the heart of living an ethical and moral life

• Ethics: Moral principles that govern a person’s or group’s behavior.  Oxford Dictionary
• Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. Albert Schweitzer
• Morals refer to an individual’s own principles regarding right and wrong. com
• High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life. John Templeton
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Living your life in harmony with true principles brings inner peace and happiness

• Happiness and peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way. Stephen Covey
• A person’s quality-of-life arises from living a life which is aligned with character traits and principles which have formed the foundation of every great person or society in history. This goes beyond values, practices or religion to the laws at the heart of happiness and quality- of- life. Stephen Covey
• Becoming principle-centred is a lifetime quest, but there is intense peace and satisfaction in the journey itself. Stephen Covey
• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• When you are unilaterally virtuous, you head directly toward your own enlightened self- interest whether or not the other person cooperates. It feels good to be good, enjoying “the bliss of blamelessness” with a mind untroubled by guilt or regret. Staying principled fosters inner peace by reducing the wrangles that would otherwise weigh on your mind. It increases the odds that others will treat you well in return. Rick Hanson
• The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. Harry Harrison
• High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life. John Templeton
• A person’s quality-of-life arises from living a life which is aligned with character traits and principles which have formed the foundation of every great person or society in history. This goes beyond values, practices or religion to the laws at the heart of happiness and quality- of- life. Stephen Covey
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Living by true principles brings integrity

• I believe that a life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude – that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.  Stephen Covey
• The ability to stand by one’s principles, to live with integrity and faith according to one’s belief – that is what matters, that is the difference between a contribution and a commitment. Howard W. Hunter
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Living by true principles can bring success

• Every game has principles that successful players master to achieve winning results. So does life. Ray Dalio
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Living by true principles brings meaning to life

• Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. Laura Schlesinger
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Living by true principles creates a clear lens through which to see the world

• As we go deeply within ourselves, as we understand and realign our basic paradigms to bring them harmony with correct principles, we create both an effective, empowering center and a clear lens through which we can see the world. We can then focus that lens on how we, as unique individuals, relate to that world. Stephen Covey

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Living by true principles makes you immune from the control of others

• To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him. Honore De Balzac
• If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people’s opinions, you will never be rich. Seneca
• If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything. Malcolm X
• Virtue sounds lofty, but it’s actually down to earth. It simply means living from your innate goodness, guided by principle. When you are virtuous no matter what other people do, their behavior is not controlling you. Rick Hanson

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Living by true principles leads to personal effectiveness…

• Effective people are guided by their own missions and manage their lives according to principles. Ineffective people follow other people’s agendas and manage their lives around pressing matters. Stephen Covey
• In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person’s life. Stephen Covey
• Effective people manage their lives according to principles. Ineffective people follow other people’s agendas and manage their lives around pressing matters. Stephen Covey 
• One of the meanings of living consciously is: Pay attention to what works, and do more of it, and try to understand the principles involved. And also: Pay attention to what doesn’t work, and stop doing it. Nathaniel Branden
• What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time? Stephen Covey
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… bringing greater and more permanent success

• Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. Walter Cronkite
• If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied. Stephen Covey
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Living by true principles allows you to touch lives

• If I simply lived the principles that appeared to be truth for me, I would touch the lives of those I was destined to touch. Marlo Morgan

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Living by true principles helps you to embrace a changing world

• People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. Stephen Covey
• We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. Jimmy Carter

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Change your principles and you change your world

• The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. Blaine Lee
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Taking great care in forming your principles

• Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. Red Skelton

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Create a personal mission statement or philosophy based on your principles

• The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based. Stephen Covey
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Anchor yourself in your principles

• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson
• ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine
• You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against. Laurie Halse Anderson
• People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. Stephen Covey
• We may be personally defeated, but our principles never. William Lloyd Garrison
• It’s important that people should know what you stand for. It’s equally important that they know what you won’t stand for.  Mary H. Waldrip
• Don’t believe that winning is really everything. It’s more important to stand for something.  If you don’t stand for something, what do you win?  Lane Kirkland
• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, and then stand firm. Abraham Lincoln

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Understand your principles

• You can’t live principals you can’t understand. Stephen Covey
• Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. Stephen Covey

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Cherish your principles as sacred

• Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Let your principles be the compass that guides your decisions, choices and actions

• The good thing about principles is that they make life easy. I have heard it said that when someone bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made. Dave Ramsey
• When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.
• It’s easy to act as if you are a weathervane, always changing your beliefs and words, trying to please everyone around you. But we were born to be lighthouses, not weathervanes. Robert K. Cooper
• Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. Dee Hock
• Proactive people recognise they are responsible for their choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than moods or conditions. Stephen Covey
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Let principles guide your methods

• As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• If you learn only methods, you’ll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Act from principle, not impulse or blind reflex

• It takes more courage to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Alex Karras
• The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values – carefully thought about, selected and internalized values. Stephen Covey

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Find people who share your principles

• Find people who share your values, and you’ll conquer the world together. John Ratzenberger

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Realise that standing firm in principle will require courage

• Courage is the father of all virtues; we need great courage to lead our lives by correct principles and to have integrity in the moment of choice. Stephen Covey
• If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it. Abraham Lincoln
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Should you adopt your principles or accept the principles of others?

• Sometimes we forge our own principles and sometimes we accept others’ principles, or holistic packages of principles, such as religion and legal systems. While it isn’t necessarily a bad thing to use others’ principles — it’s difficult to come up with your own, and often much wisdom has gone into those already created. However, adopting pre-packaged principles without much thought exposes you to the risk of inconsistency with your true values.  Ray Dalio

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Put your principles into practice for only then are they meaningful…

• The principles only work if you work the principles. Jack Canfield
• Live truth instead of professing it. Elbert Hubbard
• Realise that to make a principle part of your life, you must pay the price by actually living it, rather than merely understanding it intellectually. Stephen Covey
• You see, knowing the words is not the same thing as living the meaning. Suppose I memorize the printed instructions on a first- aid kit. Does that mean I can give first aid? No. The full meaning comes when I admit I know nothing and then try, practice, succeed. Vernon Howard
• What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do. John Ruskin
• That which transforms your life is what you practice. And what you practice constitutes your personal laws of life—not what you merely believe in, but what you practice. It’s all well and good to read books, and to attend seminars, lectures, and workshops, and to say, ‘Oh, that really resonates with me! It’s now part of my life’s philosophy.’ Your philosophy may give you a temporary state of euphoria, but if you want to be anchored in reality, it takes practice, practice, practice. We are not here to be euphoric but to get free. Rudimentary spirituality is theory; advanced spirituality is practice. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach. Buddha
• He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. Thomas Fuller
• It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. Alfred Alder
• Go put your creed into your deed. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler
• It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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… especially in challenging times

• Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour … If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? Charlotte Brontë
• Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. Henry Fielding
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There are those who believe principle should be unyielding …

• 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
• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson
• You may be flexible on strategy but must remain consistent on principle! Brubaker Movie
• A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.  Thomas Paine
• He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. Aesop
• If you can get along with everyone and everyone loves you, then you don’t stand for much. A person who stands his ground for his principles and won’t compromise his integrity is not loved by everyone. Larry Winget

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… that one should not compromise when it comes to matters of principle

• Consensus is he process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus? Margaret Thatcher
• Nothing will bind the eyes of man quicker than the touch of compromise. A principle not compromised is a principle worth dying for. A dream not compromised is a dream worth living for. Ogwo David Emenike
• Independence is loyalty to one’s best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes. Mark Twain
• It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Arthur Calwell
• The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. Andrew Carnegie
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Others advocate a less rigid and more flexible approach …

• Important principles may and must be flexible. Abraham Lincoln
• I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to flexible at all times. Everett Mckinley Dirkson
• Obey the principles without being bound by them. Bruce Lee
• Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.  George Packer
• If one sticks too rigidly to one’s principles, one would hardly see anybody. Agatha Christie
• I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck. Stanley Baldwin
• Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others. Groucho Marx

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… and assert that some compromise will be inevitable from time to time

• A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice. Mohandas K. Gandhi

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Question your principles from time to time

• To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Oliver Wendell

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• No dead principles can help, but only living consciousness. Be absolutely unprincipled and just follow life. Osho
• The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions. Albert Camus
• Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. W. F. Hegel
• We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. Mark Twain
• 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
• Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle. Lord Melbourne

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• At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Equality is not the empirical claim that all groups of humans are interchangeable; it is the moral principle individuals should not be judged or constrained by the average properties of their group. Steven Pinker
• Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition. Bryant McGill
• Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. Epictetus
• I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. Terence
• Integrate these principles and habits deep within your nature; into your basic character: integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, simplicity, modesty. Stephen Covey
• It is a law of life, and an inexorable principle, that if we develop an attitude of gratitude our happiness will increase. John Marks Templeton
• It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. Arnold Toynbee  
• Liberty, equality – bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. Henri-Frédéric Amiel
• Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. Woodrow Wilson
• My basic principle is that you don’t make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they’re right. Theodore Hesburgh
• My philosophy is based on the principle of self-ownership. You own your life. To deny this is to imply that another person has a higher claim on your life than you do. No other person, or group of persons, owns your life nor do you own the lives of others. Ken Schoolland
• No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. Patrick Henry
• One of the first principles to honor in your relationship with yourself is to respect and trust your own inner voice. This form of trust is the way of the heart, the epitome of well-being. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• One of the great underlying principles governing our life is service. Most of us have to work, but do we serve? Do we work in a spirit of service?    Henry T. Hamblinx
• Perfect wisdom has four parts, namely wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately. Plato
• Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ across cultures and eras. Yet, these differences arise chiefly at the margins. All known societies embrace the virtues of truthfulness, integrity, loyalty, fairness; none explicitly endorse falsehood, dishonesty, disloyalty, gross inequity. Howard Gardner
• Quality relationships are built on principles – especially the principle of trust. Stephen Covey
• Repeated practice is one of the most basic principles of most spiritual and meditative paths.  Whatever you practice most is what you become.  Richard Carlson
• Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Albert Schweitzer
• Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Og Mandino
• The core principle for feeling at peace in the present moment is to act or accept, but never stay stuck. John Kuypers
• The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James
• The Pareto principle is the 80-20 rule, which states that 80% of the value of a task comes from 20% of the effort. Focus your energy on that critical 20%, and don’t overengineer the non-critical 80%.  Steve Pavlina
• The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. David J. Schwartz
• The principle of continuous learning, of self-reeducation is the discipline that drives us toward the values we believe in. Such constant learning is required in today’s world. Stephen Covey
• The principle of spontaneity and serendipity is the ability to experience life with a sense of adventure, excitement, and fresh rediscovery instead of trying to find a serious side to things that have no serious side. Stephen Covey
• The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility. Thomas S. Monson
• The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. B. R. Haydon
• The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot
• The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity. Seneca
• This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess. Terence
• Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships. Stephen Covey
• Vibrant health is based on natural principles. It grows over time out of regular exercise, proper nutrition, adequate rest, a healthy mind-set, avoiding substances that are harmful to the body. Stephen Covey
• Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discovery, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. Samuel Horsley

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Money and privilege has become an over-riding principle in our society

• Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty. Edmund Pendleton
• A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money. Artemus Ward
• A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Some argue that principle is a luxury that some cannot afford

• I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. Mark Twain
• Prosperity is the best protector of principle. Mark Twain

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• Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day’s work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. Frank Lloyd Wright
• It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. Anatole France
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• Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others. Groucho Marx
• I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. Oscar Wilde
• Principles are very important, like ballast–you always want to have something left with you at the last minute you can still throw overboard. Pop Haydn
• To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
• I am a man of fixed and unbending principles the first of which is to be flexible at all times. Everett Dirksen
• When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. Otto von Bismarck
• Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch
• Economic paradox: The fact that the girl with the least principle draws the most interest.   Black
• Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle. Darby Conley

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