Explore Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings
Welcome to the biggest collection of quotations, proverbs and sayings! If you are looking for a specific quotation, proverb or saying, check our universal database. We have collected over 150,000 inspirational quotations, funny quotations, movie quotations, famous proverbs and cute sayings that we would like to share with you. Find quotations, proverbs and sayings for any occasion and view them all for free.
Browse quotations by author, topic or keyword.
Browse Topics:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the topics)
Letter "P" » Principles
(Click a letter to view the topics)
«It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.»
«It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.»
«I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.»
Author: Everett Dirksen
(Senator)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
flexible, unbending, unbends, unbent
«It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.»
Author: Florence Nightingale
(Humanitarian, Nurse)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
enunciate, enunciated, hospital
«It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.»
«I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck»
Author: Stanley Baldwin
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
float, neck, opportunist, opportunists
«In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
contradictions, faculty, Faculty of, ignoring, in practice, in principle, set aside, The Faculty, trifles
«I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.»
«It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
live up to, principles
«It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Principles,
Writing
| Keywords:
philosophical, put into practice, volumes
Get access to over 800,000 college papers on the most popular topics for only $14.95/month.
Buy essay, term paper or research paper on the specific topic at a cheap price and get a discount!
Buy essay, term paper or research paper on the specific topic at a cheap price and get a discount!
