Top 100 Abide By Quotes
#1. Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.
Howard Hughes
#2. There cannot be a law-abiding society if no one knows in advance what law they are to abide by, but must wait for judges to create ex post facto legal rulings based on "evolving standards" rather than known rules.
Thomas Sowell
#3. My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
Alfred Nobel
#4. Don't expect people to abide by your rules if you don't clearly communicate what they are. And don't expect them to live by your rules if you're not willing to compromise and live by at least some of theirs.
Tony Robbins
#5. If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.
Howard Staunton
#6. Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Calvin Coolidge
#7. Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.
Michel De Montaigne
#8. Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.
Brad Thor
#9. For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
Joe Biden
#10. In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.
Erwin Schrodinger
#11. Netanyahu made all sorts of claims. This was going to be a terrible deal. This was going to result in Iran getting 50 billion dollars worth of relief. Iran would not abide by the agreement. None of that has come true
Barack Obama
#12. I'll abide by my word, but you will never win me back! Believe me, in two weeks I will slice open your throat, drink from your blood, and then pierce your heart and laugh while your body explodes into dust. (Zephyra)
Beautiful imagery. You should write for Hallmark. (Stryker)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#13. Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.
Jubal
#14. What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.
Hosni Mubarak
#15. People have a pathway to citizenship right now- It's to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a family relationship, if they have a job skill that allows them to do that, they can obtain citizenship.
Bob Goodlatte
#16. I will provide friendly and courteous service and will work closely with all departments in the county. I will abide by the Texas Information Act in providing information to the public.
Anne Grant
#17. As Christians, we have an obligation and responsibility to abide by the principles of the Bible.
S. Truett Cathy
#18. Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.
D.H. Lawrence
#19. The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
Rachel Nichols
#20. It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then 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.
Alex Karras
#21. No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws, and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome in this country. At the same time, that does not mean we just flat out open our borders. We can't do that.
Nikki Haley
#22. I believe that we do our country a disservice when we make it harder for new American immigrants to abide by the rules of the road and obtain drivers licenses.
Martin O'Malley
#23. Now there is a new request. To release transcripts of speeches that were given. When everybody agrees to do that, I will as well. It is important we all abide by the same standards. So let's do the tax return standard first, because that has been the standard for a long time.
Hillary Clinton
#24. No religion has a separate God showering grace only on those who profess to abide by that faith.
Sathya Sai Baba
#25. President Obama was the first president not to abide by the limits in the general election.
David Brooks
#26. Work like Hell. Share all you know. Abide by your handshake. Have fun.
Dan Geer
#27. It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.
Paulo Coelho
#28. The stakes are nary a problem to me, as I do not abide by Sir Isaac's law!
Evan Bourne
#29. Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#30. Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.
Bruce Lee
#31. Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.
Steven Pinker
#32. ...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer.
Immanuel Kant
#33. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous expression with good humored inflexibility whether the whole cry of voices is on the other side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#34. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee
#35. Whether one is dealing with the state, the Mafia, parents, pimps, police, or husbands, the heavy price of institutionalised protection is always a measure of dependence and agreement to abide by the protector's rules
Wendy Brown
#36. Fourteen Points? The Good Lord only gave us Ten, and do we abide by those?
Georges Clemenceau
#37. To know God's laws and abide by them is a privilege.
Sunday Adelaja
#38. Whose vow can you abide by? You can take a vow of an idol, because an idol has no ownership. You can abide by a vow of a living being, provided he is not the owner of his body, however if he is the owner of his body, you cannot take his vow, because one day he will make you stumble.
Dada Bhagwan
#39. Cats do not abide by the laws of nature.
Charlie Day
#40. The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.
Milan Kundera
#41. When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.
Annabelle Selldorf
#42. Oh, but I don't abide by your time frame, giant," Reyna said. "A Roman does not wait for death. She seeks it out, and meets it on her own terms.
Rick Riordan
#43. As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#44. It is hard to feel safe and comfortable when the only measures for what is safe and comfortable are normative ideas you don't abide by.
Samhita Mukhopadhyay
#45. We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoah.
Angela Merkel
#46. Do I abide by the black-and-white limits I've set for myself because that's who I truly am or because that's who I am while being judged? And how far into that gray area might I venture before I go running back to my familiar boundaries?
K.A. Tucker
#47. Don't just practice religion, abide by the principles of Christ
Sunday Adelaja
#48. But, had I a place to new fashion, I should not put myself into the hands of an improver. I would rather have an inferior degree of beauty, of my own choice, and acquired progressively. I would rather abide by my own blunders than by his.
Jane Austen
#49. I know as a manager you have to abide by the chairman's decisions. But his decisions were this team, that team, this player, that player. The chairman is a control freak.
Paul Gascoigne
#50. He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.
W. Somerset Maugham
#51. Let's take our babies home and abide by the curfew. I want to thank you for understanding that we want to bring peace.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
#52. Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.
Wes Fesler
#53. Matters of the heart do not abide by the rules and regulations of the mind.
Amarie Avant
#54. Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#55. We've got to abide by the rules. We have to protect it. The game of golf at a professional level is so clean. We are our own judge, jury and executioner. If we don't do what we think is right, the game might get away from us.
Greg Norman
#56. I condemn polygamy, yes, as a practice, because I think it is not doctrinal. It is not legal. And this church takes the position that we will abide by the law.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#57. Love is a crime if you don't abide by it's rules and regulations.
Auliq Ice
#58. Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
Gloria Swanson
#59. Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population.
Nick Clooney
#60. If people can't abide by the confidentiality of the cabinet room, then they should leave the cabinet.
Ian Macfarlane
#61. The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.
Moshe Katsav
#62. But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#63. I know that, as captain, you are in a privileged position and must always abide by Fifa's code of fair play, something which I have always done throughout my career.
David Beckham
#64. There are so many ways to live, to define what living means for you and you alone. We are so narrow in our thinking, and once you understand that, once you decide to not abide by these artificial constraints, anything is possible and you are so liberated
Gayle Forman
#65. I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.
Burl Ives
#66. We welcome the Election Commission's announcement of a five-phase poll in the state. We will abide by all the guidelines and directives issued by the Commission.
Mamata Banerjee
#67. The path to contentment was to abide by one's own nature and follow it's path.
Charles Frazier
#68. There's a whole new set of rules, in this new world. If you don't abide by them, then you'll perish.
Kevin Durand
#69. Americans have an expectation that the Postal Service will abide by its well-known, although unofficial, motto - a commitment to deliver.
John M. McHugh
#70. WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #10: WHEN VISITING A FOREIGN LAND, IT IS ALWAYS WISE TO OBSERVE AND ABIDE BY THE CUSTOMS OF THE LOCAL CULTURE. UNLESS THEY'RE TRYING TO EAT YOU.
Mark Frost
#71. Over many years, the United States has worked to persuade and compel governments around the world to abide by the rules. By spurning our own rules, we put that effort at risk.
Anthony Lewis
#72. Please act in and through me. Please let my love increase, if it is your will. I feel that's the right thing; but even if it's not the right thing, I'm willing to abide by your judgment.
Frederick Lenz
#73. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
Daniel Webster
#74. Woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband.
Bruce R. McConkie
#75. Take love to people and teach them to abide by the principles of God
Sunday Adelaja
#76. I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.
Boris Trajkovski
#78. The whole concept of awards is silly. I cannot abide by the judgment of other people, because if you accept it when they say you deserve an award, then you have to accept it when they say you don't.
Woody Allen
#79. Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law.
Derek Luke
#80. The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#81. Aspire to the principal, behave with virtue, abide by benevolence, and immerse yourself in the arts.
Confucius
#82. I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book ... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.
Anton Chekhov
#83. He who has once forsaken God finds it impossible to abide by one definite deity, that is, in one religion or definite worship of God, just as there is an infinite succession of sins through unbelief, or the loss of faith. It
Martin Luther
#84. I'm constantly changing and evolving so I don't abide by just one certain style.
Stella Hudgens
#85. Don't do what should not be done, and don't desire what should not be desired. Abide by this one precept, and everything else will follow.
Mencius
#86. The Chinese government still would like to see U.S. Internet companies explore the Chinese market, providing they are willing to abide by Chinese law. I think companies like Facebook should think about the Chinese market.
Robin Li
#87. I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.
Michael Eric Dyson
#88. Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles.
Bruce Lee
#89. Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.- Atticus Finch
RIP Harper Lee
Harper Lee
#90. What is the best thing that happens if we refuse to abide by the dictates of political correctness? I believe that we could return to a nation that truly cherishes freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
Ben Carson
#91. The owners said that they wanted the salary cap and refused to promise that they would abide by the rules of the just-expired contract after the season ended. Believing we had no choice, the players went on strike in August of 1994.
David Cone
#92. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by.
R.A. Salvatore
#93. In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
C.S. Lewis
#94. Pandora, you promised to abide by the rules."
"I do," Pandora protested, looking chagrined. "I follow all the rules that I can remember.
Lisa Kleypas
#95. The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.
Joe Biden
#97. How can I be mad at her for finding her split-apart and wanting to be with him? As Guillermo said, the heart doesn't listen to reason. It doesn't abide by laws or conventions or other people's expectations either.
Jandy Nelson
#98. Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise.
Swami Vivekananda
#99. There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie.
Jamie Kennedy
#100. Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Oprah Winfrey
