My Life Rules Quotes

#1. It's because you're different. You can't live life by rules others give you. In that way, you and I are the same. You have to find your own rules. All my life I've been running away from their rules, Hayat. All my life. You will be the same.

Ayad Akhtar

#2. I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

Lawrence Taylor

#3. My favourite bit of advice comes from Dr. Daniel Amen's 18, 40, 60 Rule:
At 18 you worry about what everyone thinks of you. At 40 you don't care.
At 60 you realise no one was thinking about you anyway!

Daniel G. Amen

#4. Would I have known that mystery leaves a space for us when certainty does not? And would I have dared to challenge rules later in life if my father had obeyed them?

Gloria Steinem

#5. None of my life is based on how others think I should have lived it.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#6. I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be ... but God clearly says, those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility.

John Green

#7. One of my father's Rules for Life was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?

Nicholas Sparks

#8. One of my rules is never to look sideways at what other people are doing but instead, do what I feel is right.

Annie Bryant

#9. It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

Thomas Carlyle

#10. My life, my business, my rules, my choices, none of your bloody business!

Rida Altaf

#11. People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue.

Rachel Ward

#12. I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR.

Thaddeus Stevens

#13. I grew up in a very relaxed environment in one sense, without many rules. My mother had a problem knowing where to draw the line, which caused a chaotic and hectic home life. A lot of people took advantage of my mom.

Nikki Reed

#14. What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.'

Michelle Obama

#15. Acting is playing pretend, playing a children's game at an adult level, but with children's rules. It's fun to play bad guys. I've never been in a fight in my life, so it's fun to play something that's different.

Ray Liotta

#16. This world seems to have different rules from the other world I've been living in all of my life. I wonder if I'll ever learn them.

Lauren Graham

#17. There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost.

Rufus Wainwright

#18. My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There were rules, but there was also flexibility within those rules. He didn't push me when it came to golf: he just taught me the right way to play the game.

Tom Watson

#19. We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life ... If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

Oswald Chambers

#20. I believe that God plays this enormous role in my life. And I believe that it's my obligation to give back and to follow the rules that were set. And it also gives me an enormous sense of my own place.

Ronald Perelman

#21. Despite what I said about staying the way we were, I changed. I, who have always believed in speaking my mind and made it my mission to uncover the truth, have found myself keeping secrets. Sometimes life is more complicated than the simple rules we make for it.

Elizabeth Chandler

#22. Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes are concerned, I've made them and acknowledged them as mistakes, not regrets. I consider my life a success. There's nothing that I would re-do. I've always done what I felt was right.

Kajol

#23. I don't care about the rules of grammar so long as my characters' words sound true to life and bite heavily.

Mark Rubinstein

#24. In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

Rose Kennedy

#25. All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

Barbara Jordan

#26. I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life.

Rihanna

#27. I've learned there are givers and takers in this life. I've slowly let the takers go and I've had it for the better. God bless them, when they learn to play by the rules they are welcomed back, but my heart is worth protecting.

Donald Miller

#28. In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.

Cameron Conaway

#29. Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

Imelda May

#30. Still, one of my Rules of Life is this: When you want something, bite your tongue.

Alan Bradley

#31. I'm not even sure whether I'm missing my mother, or simply the old routine of my life: a life of school and playdates and rules that kept me safe; boundaries and borders; bath time and curfews.
A simple life.

Lauren Oliver

#32. Or did a Martian sit within each, ruling, directing, using, much as a man's brain sits and rules in his body? I began to compare the things to human machines, to ask myself for the first time in my life how an ironclad or a steam engine would seem to an intelligent lower animal.

H.G.Wells

#33. I'm stripped and vital, and I see rules that almost fit. And if I voice my opinion, will you stay and sit? And as I stand here screaming in despair, I say yes this is my life and yes you should care.

Tegan Quin

#34. I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

Jamie Dimon

#35. I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.

Mindy Kaling

#36. I think that things are poetic when they don't have a boundary. Without rules. My life is poetic.

Mark Gonzales

#37. The Law of Wonder rules my life at last,
... I burn each second of my life to Love
Each second of my life burns out in Love
In each leaping second Love lives afresh.

Rumi

#38. My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

Ryan McGinley

#39. She sticks to the rules, because it's all she's got. It's like her feelings dried up and they were replaced with a pile of useless laws. Like my appendix. Don't know what I need it for, but it's still there.

Monica Valentinelli

#40. I want to live life on my own terms. But I'm Mexican, so mi familia is always there to guide me in everything I do, whether I want them to or not. Well, "guide" is too weak a word. "Dictate" is more like it.

Simone Elkeles

#41. Running away has been futile. Wherever I went life would be the same. Resisting my chains only seem to tighten them. Yet all around me women found ways to slip those bonds, to discreetly flout the rules and then return to their so-called captivity before anyone noticed.

Sherry Jones

#42. While I live my life expecting to live, others expect that they might die. The rules of the world are not the same for all of us.

Jessica Posner

#43. The thing is, I like rules. They make me feel safe. The predictability of my boring life makes everything make sense. I guess that makes me a freak but I'm okay with that. You get to a certain point and you just realize there's no use in trying to pretend you're normal.

Amy Reed

#44. My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.

Beth Ditto

#45. I could think back to my encounters with rules and regulations that didn't seem to make much sense to me, and have empathy for my children's frustrations. I understood as a very young boy that to blindly follow rules just because they're rules is to lose control over your whole life.

Wayne W. Dyer

#46. I've been a foodie most of my life. I started when I lived for a year in Germany in my early 20s, and here was this new food environment, and I decided I needed to make sense of it. And I found it was the rules of economics that do the best job. Food is a capitalist product of supply and demand.

Tyler Cowen

#47. And so I believe that God plays this enormous role in my life. And I believe that it's my obligation to give back and to follow the rules that were set. And it also gives me an enormous sense of my own place and an enormous sense of stability.

Ronald Perelman

#48. So I wonder this, as life billows smoke inside my head This little game where nothing is sure Why would you play by the rules? Who did? You did. You ...

Dave Matthews

#49. Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.

Alice Clayton

#50. It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

Wilkie Collins

#51. I thought following a straight road would lead me right to my destination. Like the road would just take me there because I was following all the rules. And if the road curved, I couldn't be sure about where I was going. But look where it got me. Maybe it's time for a detour.

Susane Colasanti

#52. I've seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down. And I just don't want that in my life.

Adele

#53. simply the old routine of my life: a life of school and playdates and rules that kept me safe; boundaries and borders; bath time and curfews. A simple life. The

Lauren Oliver

#54. Nothing in my life had prepared me to see things that were strange or beyond belief. I was a simple kid in a simple town in a simple family. But what I saw then, right after the collapse of the woman, ripped the "simple" out of my understanding of the rules of the world, and changed my life forever.

James Dashner

#55. It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.

Simone Elkeles

#56. Slowly the foreign air enter me. I feel tingles and sensations. My life becomes a fantasy. Cannabis now rules thee.

Jude The Apostle

#57. I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Anne Stevenson

#58. I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.

Joel Osteen

#59. The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

Ray Lewis

#60. Even before I had an assistant, my calendar was color-coded and I had all these different e-mail rules for how to prioritize e-mails, so I made it a point years ago to figure all that stuff out because my life was a mess.

Chris Hardwick