Adhering Quotes

#1. There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and?there ismore beauty inthe works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.

Joseph Addison

#2. God didn't create you to walk around in self-defeat in any form. Neither are we fashioned to become someone's emotional slave; adhering to the harshness of their words in humility and remorse, while fearing a verbal lashing if we reject their false authority.

T.K. Ware

#3. [E]thical principles stand above the existence of the nation and that by adhering to these principles an individual belongs to the community of all those who share, who have shared, and who will share this belief.

Erich Fromm

#4. One should not be envious of someone who has prospered by unjust deeds. Nor should he disdain someone who has fallen while adhering to the path of righteousness.

Imagawa Sadayo

#5. A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly related to it.

James Fitzjames Stephen

#6. Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

William Cobbett

#7. Because investors are not usually penalized for adhering to conventional practices, doing so is the less professionally risky strategy, even though it virtually guarantees against superior performance.

Seth Klarman

#8. Politics. Later, they read some more in bed, adhering to the tradition of circling the words she didn't know and

Markus Zusak

#9. Integrity, by its definition, means adhering consistently to a strong, reliable code of ethics, whatever that code is.

Scott K. Edinger

#10. Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it's adhering to our scripts or not.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing

Apollonius Of Tyana

#12. Democracy is not just constitutional and legislative rules; it is a culture and practice and adhering by the law and respecting international human rights principles.

Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa

#13. You know some people are all about talk. I'm about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I've had, I've had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer.

David Dewhurst

#14. I know of no long-time practitioner who regrets adhering to a value philosophy; few investors who embrace the fundamental principles ever abandon this investment approach for another

Seth Klarman

#15. Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

Erica Jong

#16. I figured he was adhering to the adage that if you don't have anything nice to say, don't make fun of the person paying the mortgage.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#17. I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Charles Spurgeon

#18. This is kaiju!" Yojiro barked. "When did they ever give a damn about adhering to science!

Hiroshi Yamamoto

#19. Outside the practice of science itself, scientists have sometimes been the greatest offenders in adhering to dogmatic ideas against all the evidence.

Mary Hesse

#20. We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's precepts.

Herbert Hoover

#21. Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?

Jane Austen

#22. That not adhering to those notions Reason dictates (concerning the nature of God), has been the occasion of all superstition, and those innumerable mischiefs that mankind (on account of religion) have done to themselves or to one another.

Matthew Tindal

#23. The chaos indicates you're smart enough to spend your time fighting for what matters, instead of wasting time adhering to society's useless mores about what a home should look like. Speaks to your power.

Stephanie Rowe

#24. A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

James Inhofe

#25. The primary challenge for any aspiring public office bearer is to have a well-defined cause and diligently represent that cause until a significant impact is witnessed. Adhering to value-based leadership principles must be at the top of the priority list for public office aspirants.

Archibald Marwizi

#26. I don't believe in adhering to any rules I don't support and I didn't vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you'll be happy.

Willie Nelson

#27. You have got to boss scrums. The players need to know what you want them to adhere to. Then it is up to them to decide whether they are adhering to that or not.

Alan Lewis

#28. Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life ...

George Will

#29. How can a society actively promote religious faith on one hand and condemn a man for zealously adhering to his faith on the other?

Jon Krakauer

#30. I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.

Camryn Manheim

#31. Adhering to budgeting rules shouldn't trump good decision-making.

Emily Oster

#32. There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

Cate Blanchett

#33. Air Force officials appear to be more concerned with appeasing the powerful Religious Right lobbyists who have argued against any guidelines that seek to respect and protect the rights of all cadets
not just those adhering to majority religious beliefs.

Barry W. Lynn

#34. Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.

Joseph Joubert

#35. We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons ... The Liberal party, high and low, have discovered, if they ever forgot it, that the real road to success ... lies in adhering to the old principles of the party.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#36. We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

Djuna Barnes