Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

You have these great institutions spinning around you with great centrifugal force. You have to try to keep them spinning around the center.

I do not believe in a political strategy that does not have a moral foundation.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Although the world has changed dramatically since 1843, we believe that the values that guide 'The Economist' are as relevant as ever.

The principles you live by create the world you live in; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world.

Emotions change. Truth doesn't. What will you build your life upon?

For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.

The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as important as principles. Without principles, the language will fail.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. For prejudices, as we have seen earlier, are often built-in principles. They are the extract which the mind has made of experience.

The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.

I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.

Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.

It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered.

Peace is not a luxury. It's not an option. It is fundamental to the existence and well-being of a human being to have peace in their life.