Top 100 Principles Life Quotes
#1. Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Confucius
#2. You become a candidate for God's love when you are rejected by people
Sunday Adelaja
#3. Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I'm going to live in alignment with my values.
Brene Brown
#5. Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.
Thomas Traherne
#6. Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.
William Gurnall
#7. Rewards of life lived with principles; bloom, when life is about to end or has departed already.
Aniruddha Sastikar
#8. Love requires that true education should be easily accessible to all and should be of use to every villager in this daily life. The emphasis laid on the principle of spending every minute of one's life usefully is the best education for citizenship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#11. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself ...
Boris Pasternak
#12. Stillness and action are relative, not absolute, principles. It is important to find a balance of yin and yang, not just in qigong, but in everyday life. In movement, seek stillness and rest. In rest, be mindful and attentive.
Ken Cohen
#13. Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#14. (Taken from the Foreword of 'Do Hard Things') One of my life's principles is to develop myself to the maximum of my potential in all ways and to help others do the same.
Chuck Norris
#16. I think Bible principles are principles for life.
Joel Osteen
#17. Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.
John Powell
#18. Don't exert all your energy on employment, locate your purpose
Sunday Adelaja
#19. The five principles of aloha, when practiced together, awaken our awareness of our human potential and the sacredness of our life.
Paul Pearsall
#21. You cannot have a cordial relationship with God when you reject people
Sunday Adelaja
#22. One should give up the conditional life of this material world and the association of so-called civilized human beings who are simply following, in a polished way, the same stereotyped principles of eating, sleeping, defending and mating.
Anonymous
#23. Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#24. The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#25. Life is indeed terribly complicated - to a man who has lost his principles.
G.K. Chesterton
#26. That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.
Matt Stone
#27. By sticking to my principles and what I firmly believe in - I always have my own attitude towards everything in life. I wish to create trends rather than follow them. My daily routine at the moment is really just a combination of work and family.
Li Bingbing
#28. You gotta judge a man by his principles.
Rick Ross
#29. Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
King Hussein I
#30. Three Ps that I can't sacrifice: Process, Purpose, and Principles.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#31. I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.
Raymond Kelly
#32. Whatever achievements and successes I've had didn't happen overnight. It is all a product of guidance, hard work, careful planning, and intense, passionate execution over many years. (p. 69)
Injap Sia
#33. Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.
Barack Obama
#34. Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
B.R. Ambedkar
#35. The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.
Arthur Middleton
#36. False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
Lord Acton
#37. The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.
Harry Harrison
#38. What we must realize is that we cannot see everything. We do not know everything. More important, we must understand that it is impossible for us to control anything. The process of life is a spiritual one, governed by invisible, intangible spiritual laws and principles.
Iyanla Vanzant
#39. We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, energy or funds to support the production of mass media images that do not reflect life-enhancing values, that undermine a love ethic.
Bell Hooks
#40. Character is made up of core moral principles called the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, caring, fairness and citizenship. Each of these virtues are independently important but together they provide the foundation for a worthy life.
Michael Josephson
#41. The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.
Donald Miller
#42. Every tech product on the body like Jawbone or in the home like August is different. But there are definitely principles that apply across the board for me, such as integration in everyday life and discretion.
Yves Behar
#44. The compensation we receive from employment is not enough for the time being wasted
Sunday Adelaja
#45. Never become bitter just because you were rejected by men
Sunday Adelaja
#47. If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#48. In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked up ad hoc in each avocation of life, but the habit of the active utilization of well-understood principles is the final possession of WISDOM.
Alfred North Whitehead
#49. Life should be used to fulfill the purposes of the Kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
#50. My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.
Albert Einstein
#52. Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.
Peter Marshall
#53. It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.
C. JoyBell C.
#54. 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
#55. For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
Plato
#57. In lieu of fixating upon details of our life which can lead to sadness or madness, we achieve an enhanced perspective regarding the perplexity haunting our being by thinking abstractedly, a process that allows us to discern the essential principles of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#58. The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
B.C. Forbes
#59. The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.
Sonia Johnson
#60. Joblessness makes you live without the fear of being fired
Sunday Adelaja
#61. Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions.
John Thune
#62. Still, Amelia had not allowed herself to be certain until dessert, when she'd asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he'd replied Principles of Accounting, Part II.
Gabrielle Zevin
#64. The setting of SMART goals has been written about extensively over the decades, but will only be as useful as the extent to which its principles are used.
Archibald Marwizi
#65. Develop solutions using biblical principles to help solve the problems of the people
Sunday Adelaja
#66. There are principles which govern our life-they are the principles of Life. If our life is lived according to these principles all is well, and harmony reigns in place of vexation and struggle.
Henry Thomas Hamblin
#67. Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.
J. Christopher Herold
#68. God opens heavenly doors for us when we are rejected by people
Sunday Adelaja
#69. The world is your mirror...love what you see and you love YOU!
Liz Hester
#70. Your calling is in what you read, think and talk about
Sunday Adelaja
#72. Work becomes satisfaction when it is in the area of your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#74. No amount of money can compensate losing your purpose
Sunday Adelaja
#75. I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, "The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul." (David O. McKay).
Stephen Covey
#77. I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.
Malcolm Turnbull
#78. The existence of strict moral principles has invariably
signified that the biological, and specifically the sexual
needs of man were not being satisfied. Every moral regulation is in itself sex-negating, and all compulsory morality is life-negating.
Wilhelm Reich
#79. Modern life cannot be constructed on ... physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.
Bertrand Russell
#80. There is nothing in the way of amelioration of the conditions of life, of politics, of social and ethical matters, that may not be affected through the skilful application of those principles of advertising that, in business, have proved to be so wonderfully effective.
George Arthur French
#83. To be a first partaker is to understand the principles needed
Sunday Adelaja
#84. The concept of work should be understood diligently
Sunday Adelaja
#86. You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does.
Chidananda Saraswati
#87. 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
#88. Family comes first is indeed a powerful principle, but so is the imperative for your own development. It is not a self-explanatory or self-applying principle, and it can collide with other principles.
Edward Rocklin
#89. What is God? God is the great life that fills the universe; it is the principle of life aswell.
Masahisa Goi
#90. Living by your principles will always be the harder path. But you have to do it anyway. You have to do what's right no matter how hard it gets, or one day you'll find out you've become somebody you can't live with.
Zoe Cannon
#91. It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification.
Sunday Adelaja
#92. You can only build yourself effectively in the area of your calling
Sunday Adelaja
#94. Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles ... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law ... or, in a word justice.
Max Nordau
#96. Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character is a good parent, a good friend, a good employee and a good citizen.
Michael Josephson
#97. It is only when you study and understand people that you begin to see God's principles in them
Sunday Adelaja
#98. High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.
John Templeton
#99. I read obituaries first thing in the morning. With a cup of coffee. This is NOT MORBID. Just epic. Maybe it's a way of trying to figure out, before the day begins, what is important. And I am curious about all the little things that make up life. Little?
Maira Kalman
#100. These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These were the companions who fought the helplessness, the rage, and frustration.
These were the friends who gave me my life.
R.A. Salvatore
