Top 100 Quotes About Dictate
#1. Success is a very dangerous thing and I think we have to be very careful about when we dictate what success is for somebody else. Because you don't know what it's like.
Lupe Fiasco
#2. By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and to be able to incline the balance of European competitions in this part of the world as our interest may dictate.
Alexander Hamilton
#3. Never allow your current circumstances dictate your level of happiness! Remember that this too shall pass! Rejoice always!
Mignon' Talise Padilla
#5. I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don't write - I recline on my red velvet sofa with my feet on the coffee table and dictate the letters to my eldest son.
Sue Townsend
#6. I wouldn't let the old voices dictate me; I wouldn't let anyone dictate who I was anymore. I was strong enough to know who I was and I wasn't going to be beaten down again.
J.M. Northup
#7. There was that constant communication which strong family affection would dictate; and though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.
Jane Austen
#8. Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it.
Margaret Atwood
#9. Pursue what you love, what you are passionate about. Don't let somebody else dictate your life's path.
Jack Nicklaus
#10. Power comes from the muzzle of a gun, those that have the guns have the power, those that have the power dictate what type of government their shall be.
Mao Zedong
#11. Trust hangs somewhere between knowing what your heart longs for and trying to dictate the shape or timing or outcome of your heart's desire. It lies in the willingness to accept the particulars of how and when and where God chooses to intervene. It waits in the cool shade of surrender.
Paula Rinehart
#12. Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.
Oswald Chambers
#13. Life can dictate that we suffer physical restrictions and limitations, but no one has the ability to restrict or in any way demean our spirit unless we agree to it.
Sonia Choquette
#14. A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not dictate the answers, but to stimulate his students' creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.
Herbie Hancock
#15. Word like that, others' opinions of you, shouldn't have that kind of power, Saint. But they did and therein lay the problem. I was always guilty of letting other people's words and actions hurt me and dictate how I felt about myself, and it was costing me more than I ever thought.
Jay Crownover
#16. Never let fear of rejection from others, dictate the respect you show yourself.
Jill Thrussell
#17. You can always care [about what others think]. You probably always will care. But don't let it dictate your choices and what you want and what you want to accomplish and who you want to be. Don't let anyone get in the way of that. That's being yourself.
Jenna Marbles
#18. Forgiveness means that problems of the past no longer dictate our destinies, and we can focus on the future with God's love in our hearts.
David E. Sorensen
#20. Starbucks has stores in America in many, many communities that are governed by many, many different municipalities. Starbucks cannot dictate to a municipality in Cincinnati or Kansas City or Sacramento how or why or when there should be a recycling program.
Howard Schultz
#21. that every man must have a code, an ethos, a set of convictions that dictate his purpose and behavior in life. This code "forms the box" in which he lives and moves and makes decisions.
Daniel A. Biddle
#22. My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
Denzel Washington
#23. at the end of the market for spouses, men and women do not necessarily marry the type of person their initial preferences dictate: they marry the person who is both available and willing to be married to them.
Marina Adshade
#24. If God created humans with the ability to dictate the direction of history (by imagining future states of the universe and steering its path toward one version or another), then humanity's duty to God was to direct history toward the best of all possible worlds.
Dexter Palmer
#25. One of the most critical strengths of a superior competitor in any discipline - whether we are speaking about sports, business negotiations, or even presidential debates - is the ability to dictate the tone of the battle.
Josh Waitzkin
#27. If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.
R. Kelly
#28. No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever.
Ulysses S. Grant
#29. Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#30. I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.
Magic Johnson
#31. People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago.
Joel Chandler Harris
#32. Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score.
Frank Leahy
#33. If they turn on their radars we're going to blow up their goddamn SAMs. They know we own their country. We own their airspace ... We dictate the way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need.
William R. Looney III
#34. Human beings, regenerate or unregenerate, have neither the right nor the competence to dictate to a sovereign God how He is to be worshipped.
Joseph C. Morecraft III
#35. This current government in Iraq has never fulfilled the commitments it made to form a unity government with the Kurds, the Sunnis and the Shia. We have worked hard with them within the confines of our ability to do that but we can't dictate to them.
Chuck Hagel
#36. I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
Edmund White
#37. Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.
John Milton
#38. Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned the ball. That means when you have the ball, you dictate play and when you are defending, you control the space
Arrigo Sacchi
#39. To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
Thomas Aquinas
#40. Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The beauty of standup is there is room for everyone, and years of performing in front of crowds will dictate what you can or can't do.
Ted Alexandro
#41. Control people's sexuality and you control them. After all, if people allow you to dictate how they behave in the privacy of their own bedrooms, there is very little that they will not allow you to control.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#42. Actors dread working with studios because they dictate what you do in a way that independent movies can't.
Jesse Eisenberg
#43. After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place.
Tori Spelling
#44. When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.
Thomas Jones
#45. We are the sum of our thoughts. What you choose to dwell on will dictate your emotions.
James Patterson
#46. When you know your worth, no one can dictate your value.
Andria Gaskins
#47. Your background should not dictate the rest of your life ; there is success in continuity.
Osunsakin Adewale
#48. Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!
Kevin Plank
#49. Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?"
Stephen Covey
#50. I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
Salman Rushdie
#51. I dictate entirely how the team is prepared, and I am a hands-on coach; I love to be out there with the players taking the sessions.
Brendan Rodgers
#53. The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.
Sheldon Richman
#54. All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.
Niels Bohr
#55. Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.
Gail Simone
#56. Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.
Don McLean
#57. Why do people give into stereotypes others have about them? Why would you ever let someone else's negative thoughts dictate how you're going to leave your life?
Gaby Rodriguez
#58. Don't let technology dictate your life.
Maria Ressa
#59. The sketch should lead the cutting pattern, which is to say content should dictate style, which is to say that in TV the writer is king.
Tina Fey
#60. Don't let your society and environment dictate what you do with your time
Sunday Adelaja
#61. I refuze (refuse) to allow society to dictate my limitations.
Tony Kates
#62. Never let others dictate the directions that you pick in your life since they are not the ones living your life.
John Rogers
#63. When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.
T.D. Jakes
#64. one cannot legislate, dictate, or veto the laws of physics, and politics has no place in technical decisions. The
Allan J. McDonald
#65. I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#66. Caring for someone is scary [ ... ] But you can't fear dictate your life [ ... ] Don't live life hiding behind your past, live right now. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year or a hundred years
Nicole Williams
#67. Even if it were decided in extreme cases that abortion is an ethical option, the extreme cases should not dictate the general law.
R.C. Sproul
#68. People talk whether you're in school or not, but it doesn't dictate anything. You choose how much you allow people to rule you.
C.M. Owens
#69. Always cooperate with the work God is doing in you. The more we resist, the longer it takes. Don't ever let how you feel dictate God's love for you. He is always loving us, even when our circumstances don't make us feel good.
Joyce Meyer
#70. Every putt is different. Your feet dictate the stroke by how they feel on the green. I just never used the same stroke on every putt.
Jack Nicklaus
#71. I don't dictate, you don't dictate to Stevie Wonder, not successfully.
Spike Lee
#72. The stories that bind us, Halli. The stories we live by, that dictate what we do and where we go. The stories that give us our names, our identities, the places we belong, the people we hate.
Jonathan Stroud
#73. We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities.
Edward Snowden
#74. While it was nice to have someone like you around, a person's pattern shouldn't dictate who you welcomed into your life, or at your lunch table.
C.C. Hunter
#75. Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.
Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
#76. Let us remember that desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. In addition, it is our actions and our desires that cause us to become something, whether a true friend, a gifted teacher, or one who has qualified for eternal life.
Dallin H. Oaks
#77. I also learned that I must walk by the Spirit, trust God, and not allow my emotions to dictate my actions. Faith cannot exist alongside fear.
MaryLu Tyndall
#78. You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.
Michael McKean
#79. If elitist groups like Bohemian Club, the CFR and the Bilderberg Group select and groom candidates to become Presidents of the US then isn't it safe to assume they also dictate certain policies once their alumni are in the White House?
Lance Morcan
#80. As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.
Henry Van Dyke
#81. It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
Nate Lowman
#82. Ultimate authority in a global system remains with sovereigns. Governments will not have it any other way: politicians face instant rejection from their electorate if they allow transnational authorities to dictate terms.
Michael Ignatieff
#83. Gender should not dictate who brings home the bacon and who fries it up in the pan.
Liz O'Donnell
#84. And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?
Julie Berry
#85. There is no free speech in football. Information is parsed by monosyllabic head coaches, who dictate who gets to speak to whom and when.
Jane Leavy
#86. The times we live in often dictate the type of entertainment we seek
and we're starting to slide once more into a very dark and scary corner of American life.
Chuck Wendig
#87. I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house?
MTo seek misfortune, was Stephen's answer.
James Joyce
#88. I've never understood the need people have to dictate morality to other people. I really don't know what it is. I don't know if it's fear or the belief that they know the only right way. Or maybe they see a lot of social ills and social decline, and they really think they have the elixir for it.
Stephen Chbosky
#89. The men I was fighting were impotent. The shiftless, the purposeless, the irresponsible, the irrational - it was not I who needed them, it was not theirs to dictate terms to me, it was not mine to obey demands.
Ayn Rand
#90. Blurred is the picture,
To not know what's next!
Is it the laughter that awaits,
Or sorrows lined up to dictate.
Untold, unclear is ...
A story of our fate!
Somya Kedia
#91. Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we should be, how we should be.
Brene Brown
#93. I don't feel ignored. But I'd rather engage readers than dictate my opinion to them. Opinion is so ... subjective!
Neil Patrick Harris
#94. In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#95. We're all very sensitive that Jim has the shortest history with the band. He wants to be somewhat of a free agent. I'm just going to let time dictate how Jim's future evolves.
Thurston Moore
#96. The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.
Sue Grafton
#97. Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.
Aimee Carter
#98. Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness.
Max Planck
#99. The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of holding that of consequence.
Geoffrey Wood
#100. People, in forming their opinions of others, are usually lazy enough to go by whatever is most obvious or whatever chance remark they happen to hear. So the best policy is to dictate to others the opinion you want them to have of you.
Judith Martin
