<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Principles - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48243]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48244]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48238]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48239]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fellow says it hain't the money but the principle o' the thing, it's th' money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave no question in anyone's mind as to where you stand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48233]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48234]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47242]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26288]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10252]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10252</guid></item></channel></rss>