Top 100 Quotes About The Golden Rule
#1. Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.
Loretta Young
#3. The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.
Frank Muir
#4. I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.
Matt LeBlanc
#5. Let everyone regulate his conduct ... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
William Wilberforce
#6. There is no better application of the Golden Rule than to help a homeless pet. In doing this, you are giving the gift of life itself. And since there is no greater gift, there can be no greater reward
Samantha Glen
#7. I hope we never see the day when photo shops sell little schema grills to clamp onto our viewfinders; and the Golden Rule will never be found etched on our ground glass.
Charles H. Traub
#8. We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.
Stephen Baxter
#9. The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. A great leader must always keep in mind the golden rule: respect for their subordinates.
Tribute to Noah Sealth.
Miguel El Portugues
#11. We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
Edwin Markham
#12. If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business by the Golden Rule. Make this a high priority; never make a decision that contradicts the Golden Rule.
Mary Kay Ash
#14. May I gain no victory that harms me or my opponent. May I reconcile friends who are mad at each other. May I, insofar as I can, give all necessary help to my friends and to all who are in need. May I never fail a friend in trouble.
Prayer on the Golden Rule (abridged)
Eusebius
#15. If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and righty-tighty, lefty-loosey.
Robert Breault
#16. Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live.
Jesse Ventura
#17. A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.
Gloria Steinem
#18. Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.
Tina Weymouth
#19. When you're kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back - the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy's Law.
Anne Lamott
#20. I'm a rat. I used to believe in the Golden Rule but now question it. It's too easy to be snarky at those who are snarky toward me. I like how it feels - the yellow cheese giving way between pointed teeth. My tail begins to twitch.
Chila Woychik
#21. CHAPTER THE FIRST
(AND LAST)
The Golden Rule of Dragon Training is to ...
YELL AT IT!
(The louder the better,)
THE END.
Cressida Cowell
#22. The Golden Rule means we should do unto others as we would wish them to do unto us if our positions were reversed.
Napoleon Hill
#23. The Golden Rule will always be good advice!
Jay Asher
#24. The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.
Steven Adler
#25. Manners are really the basis for how we treat other people - manners are born out of compassion, empathy, the "golden rule." Manners are, quite simply, making people feel welcome, comfortable, and respected.
Brian Grazer
#26. If ever we needed to put the Golden Rule into action, it's with our aging parents.
Billy Graham
#28. I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.
Terry Pratchett
#29. And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.
Adam Schiff
#30. The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Orison Swett Marden
#31. No such individual would find the Golden Rule surprising in any way because at its base lies the foundation of most human interactions and exchanges and it can be found in countless texts throughout recorded history and from around the world
a testimony to its universality.
Michael Shermer
#32. The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed.
Richard Paul Evans
#34. Mother told me always to follow the golden rule.And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel.So remember if you're untrueAngels up in heaven are looking at you.
Hal David
#35. Any serious pondering of all of life through the Golden Rule is dangerous for our moral health because it will summon us - I know I feel this way just writing the above paragraphs - to live under the King and as one of his kingdom citizens.
Scot McKnight
#36. Bad judges, lousy cops, greedy lawyers, lazy prosecutors, mediocre teachers, and incompetent bureaucrats are inevitable. When they happen, they should be weeded out and sent back to school to learn something about moral courage and the Golden Rule.
Dennis McDougal
#37. Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Mark Twain
#38. The safest way to try to get what you want is to try to deserve what you want. It's such a simple idea. It's the golden rule. You want to deliver to the world what you would buy if you were on the other end.
Charlie Munger
#39. And so, one of the reasons why I started my Charter for Compassion, was to bring the Golden Rule back to the center of religion and morality and not put other's secondary goals, less demand goals, into the forefront
Karen Armstrong
#40. Replacing rudeness and impatience with the Golden Rule may not change the world, but it will change your world and your relationships.
Steve Shallenberger
#41. The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
Louise Hart
#42. To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse.
Clifford Whittingham Beers
#43. The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule
Leonard Cohen
#44. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you ...
Jesse Ventura
#45. I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
James Cash Penney
#46. If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.
Deepak Chopra
#47. The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.
C.S. Lewis
#48. The golden rule would be to write a great, authentic song that is well produced and it will find its home. The audience can feel whether or not the artist is being genuine in their music. It's up to the artist to have the courage to reveal their truth through their songs.
Wendy Starland
#49. Well, I think the golden rule I can think of is the fact that you must follow your passion and do something that's close to your heart. And I think that that's very important, well, to be successful and to be happy.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
#50. The golden rule for the Sabbath is cease from what is necessary and to embrace what gives life.
Ken Shigematsu
#51. People are human beings.If you are nice to me, than I am nice to you. I live by my mother's advice, which is that the Golden Rule is the way to go.
Donna Brazile
#52. Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#53. The golden rule of relationships is "Cause no indignity." A loving relationship is one in which both partners take care to protect each other's dignity. A wounded soul heals more slowly than a wounded body, so it is as important to avoid indignity as it is to avoid outright harm.
Robert W. Fuller
#54. The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.
Jerry Spinelli
#55. I have long said that there is only one rule that I follow in life and all the rest are meant to be broken. That rule is "the golden rule"-treat others as you wish to be treated.
Jer Johns
#56. The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
Karen Armstrong
#58. Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#59. What's the golden rule of social networking?"
Luther hangs up his coat. "Don't do it?
Neil Cross
#60. The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply.
James Cash Penney
#61. If we as Christians were to take Jesus's command seriously and apply it to everyone without partiality, then it would necessarily require that we demand the abolition of all governments wherever they may exist, as they can only exist by a continuous violation of the Golden Rule
Anonymous
#62. All this talk about 'suffering humanity' is principally drivel based on the error of transferring one's own psychology to one's neighbour. The Golden Rule is silly. If Lord Alfred Douglas (for example) did to others what he would like them to do to him, many would resent his action.
Aleister Crowley
#63. Luckily, Dixie, Ernie, and the two girls, Sissy and Mary Ann, all loved his money. Money was power, no question about it. Sanders remembered how his father used to recite the Golden Rule - he who has the gold makes the rules. And Sanders had the gold. The power. The control. And
Harlan Coben
#64. My parents really did believe in the Golden Rule. They really did believe that all people should be treated equally. They had friends of every culture, we celebrated different holidays, but really, secretly behind it, they had no problem telling me who I couldn't marry.
Diane Farr
#66. Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America's 'inalienable right to life,' it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.
Michael Moriarty
#67. The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the centre of your heart filled with love.
Amit Ray
#68. The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.
Hillary Clinton
#69. The golden rule for playing the bass is that's it all about feel, not just plonking away. You need to feel the sound, not using a pick or a plectrum - which has meant plenty of calluses on my fingers.
Suzi Quatro
#70. Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.
Rosa Parks
#71. Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.
Philip Pullman
#72. Know what you want to achieve prior to starting to negotiate. It's the golden rule but the one most people fail to heed. Without a plan, you allow the opposing party to define your goals instead of the other way around.
Ivanka Trump
#73. The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
#74. The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.
David Josiah Brewer
#76. We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#77. The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.
Gloria Steinem
#78. A version of the golden rule to do unto others as you would have them do unto you is present in every major religion for a reason. Relationships are the place where the mystical experience can become alive.
Helen LaKelly Hunt
#79. Perspective taking is taking on the perspective of others. It's what we do anytime we buy a gift for someone else ("What would they like?"). So it means breaking the golden rule ("Treat others the way you want to be treated") and instead, acknowledges that others may not want what you want.
David Livermore
#80. Character Ethic as the foundation of success - things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.
Stephen R. Covey
#82. We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can.
Ken Wilber
#83. Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.
Ellen DeGeneres
#84. The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
Barry Eisler
#85. Packing? Here's the golden rule of packing: you don't need that.
Jason Gay
#86. If you remember the golden rule of never saying no to judges and people with guns, you can go through the rest of your life realising that you have choice in every situation.
Max Robberts
#87. The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position
Christine Stevens
#88. My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.
Gordon Brown
#89. There's too much psychology in the world.
People should live by the Golden Rule. And dance the Tango. Passion is good.
Lee DeBourg
#90. Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline.
Maurice Allais
#91. Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others ...
Michael Jackson
#92. As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.
T. Colin Campbell
#93. It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built.
Major Taylor
#94. [About compassion] You can have the 'golden rule' do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.
Jennifer Beals
#95. Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice, it's an investment.
Byllye Avery
#96. We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.
Buzzie Bavasi
#97. The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
Charles Duhigg
#99. The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.
Oswald Chambers
