Good Precept Quotes

#1. A good example is far better than a good precept.

Dwight L. Moody

#2. I'm not just a warm body.

Kalayna Price

#3. In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practiced, and both by precept and example inculcated on mankind.

Samuel Adams

#4. A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

Roderick Haig-Brown

#5. Models should just be beautiful women who inspire others. They won't be starving themselves because they are being accepted for themselves. Any thinner than today's ideals would be impossible. Any thinner means dead.

Crystal Renn

#6. The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.

Tony Evans

#7. Where is there virtue in this world that is of any practical good whose vital force is not to be found in example rather than in precept?

Edward Hooker Dewey

#8. This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.

Bernard De Mandeville

#9. Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

Francis Bacon

#10. Sometimes it's good to start over

R.J. Palacio

#11. It was perhaps, the devil's oldest precept, that sin could always be trusted to reveal what was most human in a person as often for good as for ill.

Joe Hill

#12. By the way, I love your precept. I agree, sometimes it's good to start over. A fresh start gives us the chance to reflect on the past, weigh the things we've done, and apply what we've learned from those things to the future. If we don't examine the past, we don't learn from it.

R.J. Palacio

#13. We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent.

John Steinbeck

#14. But maybe that was what it meant to grow up and have the seemingly infinite possibility of childhood vanish in an instant. You had to press on, no matter how dark and narrow the path ahead seemed.

Martha Brockenbrough

#15. I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

Isabel Allende

#16. I, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table.

Carrie Underwood

#17. I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

W. Somerset Maugham

#18. For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.

C.V. Wedgwood

#19. The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

Seneca The Elder

#20. All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.

H.P. Lovecraft

#21. JULIAN ALBANS'S PRECEPT Sometimes it's good to start over. - Julian Albans

R.J. Palacio

#22. Thinking has, many a time, made me sad, darling; but doing never did in all my life ... My precept is, do something, my sister, do good if you can; but at any rate, do something.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#23. There were many, many times thereafter that Don regretted having enlisted - but so has every man who ever volunteered for military service.

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. I freely admit that I have many times adopted Jim Oakley's precept of a "bloody good gallop," often with spectacular results. To this day I frequently learn things from farmers, but that was one time when I learned from a postman.

James Herriot