Rule Quotes

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.
Princess Diana

Heart, Book, Head

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Wisdom, Human, Find

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Time, Good, Read

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Everything, Thoughts, Face

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Joyce Brothers

Love, Hurt, Simple

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Orison Swett Marden

Business, Yourself, Put

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
Lance Armstrong

Law, Says, Regulation

Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
Andy Rooney

Working, Head, Hands

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

England, Graves, Alas

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
Samuel Adams

Nature, Power, Law

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life, Best, Successful

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal

Life, Truth, Nothing

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
Jon Bon Jovi

Women, Fighting, Worth

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Charles Dickens

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.
Harvey Weinstein

Time, Control, Country

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler

Life, Music, Feeling

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
Jefferson Davis

History, Show, Nor

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.
Ellen DeGeneres

Faith, School, Sunday

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Earl Nightingale

Lives, Within, Charge

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Calvin Coolidge

Important, Someone, Others

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
James M. Barrie

Life, Try, Shall

I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.
James Cameron

Yourself, Job, Mean

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
Gore Vidal

Age, Perfect, Days

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
Mark Zuckerberg

Business, Simple, Progress

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Larry Flynt

Voting, Rights, Individual

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Live, Country, Clubs

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
Edward Abbey

Men, Wise, Enough

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
Chinua Achebe

Democracy, Put, Away

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
David Herbert Lawrence

Woman, Her, She

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
B. R. Ambedkar

Country, Another, Class

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