Principles Quotes - Page 4

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness. If they are happy by surprise, they find themselves disabled, unhappy to be deprived of their unhappiness.

It’s either you are converting your time or not

Continue to diligently work and God’s principles will work in your life as it worked in Ruth’s life

Work is not about survival alone

Uplifting God’s Kingdom on earth should be our life’s mandate as believers

Life is given to bring the will of God on earth

No amount of service we do can impress God, only our service to ordinary people can

Everything in existence was gotten from the currency of time

Your time is the life you have at a particular moment

To regain your lost years, you must make sure that any activity targeted at attaining your goal must be done with the qualities of intensity, speed and focus

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Don’t just practice religion, abide by the principles of Christ

Your calling is in your difference and uniqueness

I believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions.”“The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain,” Chakotay said with equal certainty.“So is the road to peace,” Cambridge observed.

From the beginning, Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation for American public dialogue and government policy. They serve as the solid basis for political activism in support of a better socioeconomic environment. Found in American homes, truth from the Hebrew Christian Bible has enabled individual liberty to prevail over secular empires because it is a practical message about reality from man’s Creator. In their quest for liberty, Americans focused upon the conspicuously self-evident “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” It is the governing character of these principles (laws), such as humility, the Golden Rule, and the Ten Commandments, that leads to success. This is the sure foundation upon which man’s right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” rests. Called “virtue” by America’s Founding Fathers, the impartial and divine element frees man to do what is right. “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17).

Oh, those grumblers! They all take principles as motives and dare not follow their desires.

Ethics are the things that say, 'Don’t stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It’s okay because we’ve shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we’ve chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I’m having a really hard time getting back up.

Aristotle declared that, ‘It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.’ Does the intrinsic tension between opposing ideas create a lamplight of stereoscopic vision? Does the mental friction generated by antinomy, a contradiction between two apparently equally valid principles or between inferences correctly drawn from such principles, lead to war within the mind or does the natural rasping of abrasive thoughts spur the mind to create soothing metaphorical thoughts in order to attain conceptual peace?

Don’t wait for people to celebrate you before you celebrate them

Work is designed to be in your own field of calling

Live your life for the advancement of the Kingdom

The ministry of Christ is related to fellowshipping with people

You have to discover your area of talent to be effective

The principle of God is love

A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results.

You only gain in life when you multiply

God is after the truth in your worship

A person could resist popular belief and stand up for personal principles, and though there may be consequences, not everything would necessarily be lost. In fact, something important might be gained, if only within oneself.

You love God by showing love to His creations

Even though we live in an unfair world, where some men and nations acquire their wealth in ways that are not always as straightforward as we would like it to be, yet in the midst of it all, it is not impossible to discover principles and secrets for the greatness of nations.

One cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Life is all about purpose

In short, do you keep pace with those around you, or do you decide yourself just how you will live your life? The truth is...only you are qualified to set your standards. Only you can determine how you should live and what you will finally expect from yourself.

You must invest quality time in your land to become great

Principles? Principles won’t do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags—rags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; you want a deliberate belief.

Brotherly love should be our number one principle as believers

The nature of God is that we welcome and celebrate one another

You have to be skillful in your time management to be productive

God is connected to people

We glorify God when we celebrate people’s gifts

Gain great values by converting your time

God is a God of appreciation

As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation to free thinking - this gradually works back upon the character of the people, who thereby gradually become capable of managing freedom; finally, it affects the principles of government, which finds it to its advantage to treat men, who are now more than machines, in accordance with their dignity.

You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life.

Break free from the contract of employment

Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts had really been made? Only the survivors—the living—could attest to it. In order to know that a person had truly laid down his life for his friends, or comrades, one would have to hear it from his own lips, or at least have heard it promised in advance. And that presented another difficulty. Many brave and now dead soldiers had nonetheless been conscripts. The known martyrs—those who actually, voluntarily sought death and rejoiced in the fact—had been the kamikaze pilots, immolating themselves to propitiate a 'divine' emperor who looked (as Orwell once phrased it) like a monkey on a stick. Their Christian predecessors had endured torture and death (as well as inflicted it) in order to set up a theocracy. Their modern equivalents would be the suicide murderers, who mostly have the same aim in mind. About people who set out to lose their lives, then, there seems to hang an air of fanaticism: a gigantic sense of self-importance unattractively fused with a masochistic tendency to self-abnegation. Not wholesome. your life?

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

The way you spend your time daily determines how effective your life will be

Don’t neglect your calling all in the name of employment

Stop trying to make a living and begin to live

Celebrating people is a form of love

You must live a life of love to live an effective life

To admit what you see endangers principles.

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well.

Your net worth determines how valuable you are in the sight of men

You only work right when you are fulfilling the essence of your creation

Your calling is buried in your background on earth

Life is given for increase and multiplication of the glory of God

We disqualify ourselves from communicating with God when we refuse to open our hearts to people

You get divine blessings when you love and cherish both those who love and hate you