Rule In Life Quotes

#1. I fear debt. I don't like being indebted to banks. I have a rule in life that I will get it when I can afford it.

Vir Das

#2. It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. A rule in life I don't break is - I never take sides between two people. There are two stories and somewhere in the middle lies the truth.

E.M. Benton

#4. The first rule in life is 'everybody lies.' Remember that and you'll get a lot further.

Jennifer Crusie

#5. A rough rule in life is that an organization foolish in one way in dealing with a complex system is all too likely to be foolish in another.

Charlie Munger

#6. The rule in life is like with tennis: One point won't lose you the match, but if you let it get to you, it will.

David Seller

#7. There was one big rule in life - the things you worried about never happened, and the things that happened were never the ones you expected. Not that this bit of advice helped Johnny much. It simply meant that he spent more time guessing at what the unexpected disasters in his life would be.

John Bellairs

#8. It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

Clive James

#9. Maybe a good rule in life is never become too important to do your own laundry.

Barry Sanders

#10. Whether good or bad, it was I that did the damage, and the wisest rule in life, note the aftermath and how to manage.

Ken Dereste Dorcely

#11. Some time ago," he said, "
how long it seems!
I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.

P.G. Wodehouse

#12. A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#13. The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.

Nellie Melba

#14. ...whose number one rule in life is: ignore all the ordinary people.

Margaret Willey

#15. One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is alright.

J.G. Ballard

#16. And the rule in life that has unprecedented power is that the individual who knows the right people, for the right reasons, and utilizes the power of these relationships, can become a member of the "club," whether he started out as a caddie or not.

Keith Ferrazzi

#17. He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs.
"One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".

J.G. Ballard

#18. TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed to. So it was my dream to work in television.

Melissa Rauch

#19. And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.

Sebastian Faulks

#20. Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.

Dee Dee Myers

#21. A kingdom man is a man who visibly demonstrates the comprehensive rule of God underneath the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every area of his life.

Tony Evans

#22. [God] can help you begin to rebuild your marriage and your life if you will let Him rule in your life.

Billy Graham

#23. As a rule, she ate fairly healthily but all bets were off during times of stress. Proving the point, she'd just polished off an entire bag of pizza rolls by herself and was covered in crumbs and questioning her choices in life.

Jill Shalvis

#24. We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control
we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#25. ...A canonical leader is someone whose exemplary rule might have appeared to be for the alleviation of the pains and miseries of a particular group, but which in reality is for the advancement of humanism...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#26. But I loved Rule like it was my mission in life. I loved him like it was inevitable, like no matter how many times I was shown what an awful idea it was, what a bad match we were, what a callous asshole he could be, I couldn't shake it.

Jay Crownover

#27. As a general rule, it is difficult for people in public life to change their minds. There is an immediate rush to portray politicians as "flip-floppers" when they shift position on anything, even if they do so following a careful consideration of an issue rather than a meeting with a pollster.

Anonymous

#28. You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you.

Daniel Finkelstein

#29. With pure nature, money isn't necessary but meaningful to every one, including me, but i don't make it a principle rule because I can live without it.

Auliq Ice

#30. Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Katherine Mansfield

#31. We might live in a civilized world, but rules "We might live in a civilized world, but rules and laws didn't apply to me. I was a rule-breaker, curse-maker, life-stealer."and laws didn't apply to me. I was a rule-breaker, curse-maker, life-stealer.

Pepper Winters

#32. City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Edward Hoagland

#33. Both men and women who have children as a rule regulate their lives largely with reference to them, and children cause perfectly ordinary men and women to act unselfishly in certain ways, of which perhaps life insurance is the most definite and measurable.

Bertrand Russell

#34. A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones

Charles Darwin

#35. You must contrive for your future rulers another and a better life than that of a ruler, and then you may have a well-ordered State; for only in the State which offers this, will they rule who are truly rich, not in silver and gold, but in virtue and wisdom, which are the true blessings of life.

Plato

#36. The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

Carl Schmitt

#37. Benedict sets up a community, a family. And families, the honest among us will admit, are risky places to be if perfection is what y ou are expecting in life.

Joan D. Chittister

#38. Wherever I found religion in my life I found strife, the attempt of one individual or group to rule another in the name of God. The naked will to power seemed always to walk in the wake of a hymn.

Richard Wright

#39. Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner.

Jodi Picoult

#40. All things are possible not only to God but also to the man who truly and firmly believes in Him

Sunday Adelaja

#41. Gandhiji was not born in freedom. All his life, except for a few months. lay within the framework of colonial rule. A good part of that life lay buried in prison cells. Yet he was always the free man, while those who held him imprisoned were the unfree ones.

Bhabani Bhattacharya

#42. Books," says E. P. Whipple, "are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time." "As a rule," said Benjamin Disraeli, "the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Orison Swett Marden

#43. My goal in life was to rule my tiny, elite world, so I did.

Fisher Amelie

#44. Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.

Samuel Smiles

#45. That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. When parents were poor or ignorant or mean, or even just didn't believe in having a TV set, it was up to their kids to protect them.

Katherine Paterson

#46. Abject submission to the power on the throne which had been the rule of life in the ancient world since kings began, and was to be the rule of life in Asia for centuries to come, was cast off by the Greeks so easily, so lightly, hardly more than an echo of the contest has come down to us. In

Edith Hamilton

#47. Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

Jackie Collins

#48. Matthew Henry says that to walk with God is "to set God always before us, and to act as those that are always under his eye. It is to live a life of communion with God both in ordinances and providences. It is to make God's word our rule and his glory our end in all our actions."5

Jerry Bridges

#49. In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.

Katy Perry

#50. When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.

Pope John Paul II

#51. In Jesus' Name, I pledge to rule my eternal kingdom(life)with eternal grace and eternal righteousness in Christ.

Cessza Gumede

#52. Of course I loved Remy, loved him like a brother, like the best friend and consummate protector he had been, but I loved Rule like it was my mission in life. I loved him like it was inevitable,

Jay Crownover

#53. The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

Kirby Larson

#54. As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

Ernst Toller

#55. Life in this form is one-time chance, death is the inevitable consequence for anyone who is born. The record of one's death is the primary respect one could render to the lost one. Tears of all relatives of missing people are indeed flowing due to this invaluable action by the authority.

Nilantha Ilangamuwa

#56. It would be the height of idiocy for the Duke of Wakefield to pursue the cousin of the woman he wanted as wife. And yet, for the first time in his life, Maximus wanted to let the man rule him instead of the title.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#57. My general rule of thumb is, once something's a ride at Disneyland, I assume that it is no longer a threat in real life. Which is why I don't expect to get attacked by a giant tea cup anytime soon.

Arj Barker

#58. A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.

Evelyn Underhill

#59. It is essential to institute a legal framework that would ensure justice and improve the quality of life in Burma immediately, because the greatest suffering among the people at the moment is caused by lack of justice and lack of the rule of law.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#60. I attribute my whole success in life to a rigid observance of the fundamental rule - Never have yourself tattooed with any woman's name, not even her initials.

P.G. Wodehouse

#61. Ryder Delaney was the one imperfection in my life.He was the bad boy,black sheep,the one your mother always warned you about.He had
only one hard-and-fast rule-Don't Fall In Love

Paige Weaver

#62. There's no rule book that tells you how to act in every given situation in life, you know? So what I always say is that it's always better to err on the side of kindness. That's the secret. If you don't know what to do, just be kind. You can't go wrong.

R.J. Palacio

#63. Opportunities are like night owls. They like to streak naked and howl at the moon. A lot of success in life comes down to luck. So put yourself in a position to get lucky. Because you know what happens if you don't go out?

Nothing.

Ari Gold

#64. There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.

Alison Lurie

#65. Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.

Steve Maraboli

#66. Don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.

Lisa Scottoline

#67. It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

Jonathan Swift

#68. It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

John Ruskin

#69. It is an acknowledged truth that the constancy of a good father during childhood goes a long way to prevent a girl from letting herself get kicked around by jerkface male sadists later in life -- and I am no exception to this rule.

Leah McLaren

#70. And that, she realized, fully encompassed the Carstairs family's last and most important rule of life: no matter what, never forget that everything generations of their family had accomplished could vanish in an instant.

Shelley Gray

#71. The average result has to be the average result. By definition, everybody can't beat the market. As I always say, the iron rule of life is that only 20% of the people can be in the top fifth. That's just the way it is.

Charlie Munger

#72. I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people's relations to their own emotions, 'cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that's where we work.

Alison Pill

#73. With life in general, desires rule our thoughts in most aspects.

Auliq Ice

#74. RVM Thoughts for Today -
People are so cautious about Life that they forget to enjoy it. They may follow all the rule of the world but in the Process, they forget to Live.

R.v.m.

#75. Why so eager to jump in and direct someone else's life when you can't stick to your own goals and resolutions?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#76. 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

#77. As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.

Benjamin Disraeli

#78. In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.

Anthony Trollope

#79. The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'

Mitch Daniels

#80. Patience is important, and also, if you don't want to do it, don't do it. But if you do, do. That's a general rule in how I live my life.

Mac DeMarco

#81. And the God who ruled absolutely in the life and fortunes of the most powerful monarch of that time still rules in the fortunes and destinies of governments today. No government or dictator is so powerful as to be beyond the sway of His sovereign rule over all the nations of the earth. GOD

Jerry Bridges

#82. Don't ever be honest about who you are - and I mean that as a life rule, not just in this instance.

Andrea Cremer

#83. The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation ... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity.
Eternity ended ten years ago.

Brandon Sanderson

#84. Dante.
He loved me so deep and so hard that I was blinded by it.
I thought it was a miracle. I was so young, so impressionable, so infatuated.
So stupid. For years and years, all I had the sense to do was bask in it.
I let our love rule my life. It was everything to me.

R.K. Lilley

#85. Life always involves some logic in its manifestations, and logic, as a rule, excludes the versatility of life from its considerations.

Raheel Farooq

#86. If there is one rule for dressing, for fashion, it's pretty much the same rule as for everything else in life: Don't go against yourself, don't go against your own nature. It's only going to show.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#87. First rule of life: the woman always goes first. Through doors, into orgasm, and in this case, crumbling to the pressure in a battle of wills. "Fuck

Max Monroe

#88. I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.

Terence Winter

#89. Oh, this shouldn't be allowed. There should be a rule which says that people you've met in the gym should never meet you in real life.

Sophie Kinsella

#90. Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.

Robert Greene

#91. In Life No Matter Where You Go Or How You Live It, Keep This One Rule ... Make It Epic!

Timothy Pina

#92. I'm never going to rule anything out in life, because most of what I'm doing now, I never intended to do.

Jim DeMint

#93. followed the one percent rule: improve one percent each day, in each of these areas of life.

James Altucher

#94. I felt God had conned me by telling me to marry Grace, and allowed Grace to rule over me since she was controlling our sex life. I loved Grace, but in the bedroom I did not enjoy her and wondered how many years I could white-knuckle fidelity.

Mark Driscoll

#95. A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life.

Jaime Lerner

#96. If I am going to be drowned - if I am going to be drowned - if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?

Stephen Crane

#97. It is only when we live in accordance with the rule of God that our life is set in order," he declared a decade later; "apart from this ordering, there is nothing in human life but confusion.

William J. Bouwsma

#98. I've met some brave people in my life. And I've met some awfully stupid people. You're one of the rare ones that are both.

James Dashner

#99. Sometimes we're caught off guard and asked to do something we may not want to do, something outside our comfort zone - a favor, a challenge. We could be mocked or ridiculed. Or maybe we'll doubt ourselves, but we can't let fear rule. Sometimes in life, we have to dance.

Jake Byrne

#100. There's a rule in acting called, 'Don't play the result.' If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result.

Michael J. Fox