Morgan Freeman
Actor, Narrator
"Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you."
Guiding Principles quotes
Guiding Principles
51 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Politician, Lawyer
"My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest Nations of the world."
Andy Cohen
Television Producer
"The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted."
Barbara Jordan
Politician, Lawyer
"Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable."
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"The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion."
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"For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation."
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"(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss"
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"The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior."
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"The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST."
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"My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient."
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"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."
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"I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote."
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"I think the guiding principle for me is working with people, because I don't know how long it's going to last, I want to seize the moment and work with people I want to work with."
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"My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality."
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