Principle Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old principle quotes, principle sayings, and principle proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Principles without programs are platitudes. George Bernard Shaw
Principles are the territory. Values are maps. Stephen Covey
Most principles are limp until they are tested. Richard Brookhiser
Obey the principles without being bound by them. Bruce Lee
A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something. William Bernbach
Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity. Stephen R. Covey
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. Mahatma Gandhi
A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad. John Milton
Let principles make decisions. Jack Hyles
Teach principles not formulas. Richard P. Feynman
Principle is a passion for truth. William Hazlitt
The principle part of faith is patience. George Macdonald
Principle comes first; action thereafter. Todd Stocker
Rise above principle and do what's right. Joseph Heller
Principles have a way of yielding to power. Bette Lord
The first principle of all action is leisure. Aristotle
Principles are what people have instead of God. Alexander Schmemann
Important principles may and must be inflexible. Abraham Lincoln
The principle of realism means denial of the ideal. Gustave Courbet
Principles and their consequences are always constant. Sunday Adelaja
Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable. Aleister Crowley
The principles always work if you work the principles. Jack Canfield
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James
A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views. Luc De Clapiers
Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles. John Kessel
Never compromise a principle or relinquish a vital truth. Alfred Armand Montapert
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. Jerzy Kosinski
Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth. Ellen G. White
If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to. Benjamin Franklin