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Principles Quotes

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

~ Alfred Adler Quotes

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The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny - it is the light that guides your way.

~ Heraclitus Quotes

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The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.

~ Stephen Covey Quotes from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People; p. 106

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Don’t try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.

~ Vernon Howard Quotes from Mystic Path to Cosmic Power

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I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude—that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes

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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 R. Covey Quotes

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If you use these principles wisely and intelligently, there can be no uncertainty as to the outcome of any endeavor, and no limit to your possibilities.

~ Roger McDonald Quotes from Message of a Master

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If I simply lived the principles that appeared to be truth for me, I would touch the lives of those I was destined to touch.

~ Marlo Morgan Quotes from Mutant Message from Down Under

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AS to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.

~ Dee Hock Quotes

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