Guiding Principles Quotes

When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!

States are supposed to have interests but no principles. I have principles but no interests.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men aim at, and the choice of the means employed for the attainment of these ends.

This Diversity of origins requires an infinitely firm guide, an infinitely delicate touch to manage this heterogeneous society, whose complex composition becomes destroyed, divided and dissolved with the slightest alteration.

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

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

It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.

A great nation should have only two great objectives before its eyes, principles and force.

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

A leader leads by example not by force.

A movement without a vision is a movement without moral foundation.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

When you're a kid, you always think about your parents, and I still do. I try to lead with the same example that they set.

My principle and my faith is what is driving me from the get-go.

I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.

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

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

It would be just like him to wait for some expression of public opinion instead of giving direction to that public opinion.