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“"My #1 guiding principle for a successful life (learned from J Brad Britton): "Do the right thing; not the easy thing." Everyday, you are constantly faced with choices to do either the right thing (any activity that moves you closer to where and who you want to be) or the easy thing (anything else). In every moment of choice, choose to do the right thing over the easy thing, and your becoming successful is inevitable.”

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Author:Hal Elrod

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.”

Way Firsts Persons Easy Principles Honest Fool Scientist Careful Being Honest Conventional Fooled Conventional Ways

Book:Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

Source: Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

“Even an evil man can have principleshe can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.”

Men Evil Easy Principles Being True Evil Man

Book:Conversations with Norman Mailer

Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer

“To be energetic and firm where principle demands it, and tolerant in all else, is not easy. It is not easy to abhor wickedness, and oppose it with every energy, and at the same time to have the meekness and gentleness of Christ, becoming all things to all men for the truth's sake. The energy of patience, the most godlike of all, is not easy.”

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Book:Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield

Source: Teachings and Counsels: Twenty Baccalaureate Sermons; with a Discourse on President Garfield

“Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution of the plan conceived, and renders profitable its results when attained. By continuing to advance steadily in the same way, light constantly increases, obstacles disappear, efficient habits are confirmed, experience is acquired, the use of the best means is reduced to easy action, and success becomes more sure.”

Source: Proverbs for the people: or, Illustrations of practical godliness drawn from the Book of wisdom

“The language of theism which was familiar to the people, gave Gandhi the advantage of easy communication with the people, but it is atheistic in principle. It could have been the starting point for the atheistic movement in the modern age.”

“The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him.”

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Book:Among My Books: Six Essays

Source: Among My Books: Six Essays

“Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.”

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes

“It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.”

Men Easy Principles One Day Each Day Working It Easy Things

Book:The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

Source: The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

“How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.”

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Author:James F. Cooper

“If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.”

People Ifs Together Easy Simple Principles Design Starting

Author:Bill Moggridge

“For me, teaching helps to reaffirm the right principles and values of acting. It helps me focus on the good stuff that can be easy to lose sight of because the business is so result-oriented.”

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Author:Mark Pellegrino

“It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.”

Men Wells May Reason Fall Easy Forget Principles Accounts Length Absurdity

Book:The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

Source: The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...

“There was on section in First Corinthians 13 that talks about (showing) patience, kindness, politeness, how can I demonstrate forgiveness to my children and more fully enjoy them as they're growing up and vice versa. And so, each of those has a day's journey. There are 40 days that people will go through in applying these biblical principles for their kids. We spell them out in layman's terms so it's really easy to grasp a principle.”

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Author:Alex Kendrick

“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.”

Easy Principles

Author:Winston Churchill