Top 100 Rule Yourself Quotes
#1. Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.
Louisa May Alcott
#3. Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
#4. You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success.
Tony Robbins
#5. This surely is a good rule: whenever you see a fault in any other man, or any other church, look for it in yourself and in your own church.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#6. Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.
Rich Burlew
#7. Losing your innocence has very little to do with virginity, you know. Loss of innocence comes when you have to deal with the real world by yourself, when you learn that the first rule of life is kill or be killed. So different from one's nursery stories." She
Shirley Conran
#8. The most basic rule of editing is that if you can't bear to read it, no one else can either. So when you find yourself skimming, commit murder.
Marion Roach Smith
#9. I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.
O. Henry
#10. The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself.
Joan Rivers
#11. I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don't have to learn."
Vokep shook his head grimly. "It's the kids," he said. "Having babies. Makes 'em propertarians. They won't let go." He sighed. "Touch and go, brother, that's the rule. Don't ever let yourself be owned.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#12. If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: Never lie to yourself!
Paolo Koeljo
#13. The only rule I have is to quit while it's still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it's going good. Then it's easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you'll get into a dead spell and you'll have trouble with it.
William Faulkner
#14. Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool projects.
David Hayter
#15. And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go off and get yourself killed like a Dumbass. First rule in horror movies, Clair-Never split up!
Rachel Caine
#16. I think it's a rule that it's socially acceptable to wet yourself when aliens enter your mind for the first time. If it wasn't already, it is now.
Orson Scott Card
#17. New Rule: Stop calling bagpipes a musical instrument. They're actually a Scottish Breathalyzer test. You blow into one end, and if the sound that comes out the other end doesn't make you want to kill yourself
you're not drunk enough.
Bill Maher
#18. Cinderella Rule #16
Standards. Goals. Everyone has them. Or should. But before you judge yourself a success or failure, make certain the standards you're applying are your own. And that the goals you're trying to achieve aren't being pursued for the wrong reasons.
Donna Kauffman
#19. ... do not ask yourself which kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western..Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, definitions'.
Elif Shafak
#20. Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have men who would question you and see flaws in your plans, so long as you could control them. It was all about control.
Brandon Sanderson
#21. Rule 1 for Mortals: Love the Lord your God (with every bit of you).
Rule 2 for Mortals: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Tip 1 for Mortals: Ask God to call your bluffs.
N.D. Wilson
#22. The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Orison Swett Marden
#23. There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#24. I had a rule that it was better to be bored by yourself than to be bored with someone else. I pretty much lived by that rule. Maybe that's why I didn't have any friends.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#25. Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#26. In those days, if you wanted to escape to another world, you had to create it yourself, using your brain, some paper, pencils, dice, and a few rule books.
Ernest Cline
#27. As a rule, wearing a bigger pair of jeans looks better than squishing yourself into a pair of jeans that used to fit before you gave up smoking.
Jenny Eclair
#28. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.
John Weitz
#29. First rule of bathing," Gavril said. "If you can't smell yourself anymore, it's time to wash.
Brian McClellan
#30. The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Plato
#31. In cold weather a good rule is to light your fire first before doing anything else. It is always more sensible to keep yourself warm rather than trying to thaw yourself out later.
Mors Kochanski
#32. Bras are a ludicrous invention; but if you make bralessness a rule, you're just subjecting yourself to yet another repression.
Germaine Greer
#33. The only rule I have found to have any validity is writing is not to bore yourself.
John Mortimer
#34. Believe in God and in yourself and then success will not pass you by
Sunday Adelaja
#36. If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you.
William Law
#37. One rule of thumb you should use when setting deadlines for yourself is to carefully consider how much time you expect the entire project to take and multiple that number by 1.5. For example, if you think your project is going to take 10 days to complete, plan to give yourself 15 days.
Ric Thompson
#38. Also, because schools must teach the spirit of goodwill, the habit of helping others around you, every class should have this rule: students, if you bring software to class you may not keep it for yourself.
Richard Stallman
#39. Ava Elizabeth Baker you make yourself a survivor, not a victim. Become an exception and not a rule.
Nicole Gulla
#40. In Jesus' Name, I pledge to rule my eternal kingdom(life)with eternal grace and eternal righteousness in Christ.
Cessza Gumede
#41. Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.
Nina Easton
#42. One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal
#43. Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven't fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.
John Ashbery
#44. Regardless of what kind of film, the number one rule of comedy is to never take yourself too seriously and then the next rule is you can't have any self-consciousness, otherwise it kills the laugh, and that will never change.
Ari Graynor
#46. As a black man, you have to keep your head down. You have to keep yourself steady. You have to follow every rule that's ever been written, plus a few that have always remained unspoken.
Kekla Magoon
#47. The most important rule: Do not, I repeat, do not censor yourself in any way. Leave your editorial mind out of the loop. Just let the ideas come pouring out in any way, shape, or form they want to. Do not judge anything.
James Scott Bell
#48. The first rule of self control is never to put yourself in a position where you have to practice self control
Venancio Cadle Gomani Jr.
#49. I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.
James Cameron
#50. Be loving to yourself and others will see that love reciprocated. This rule works every time
Oprah Winfrey
#51. The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?
Mark Twain
#52. 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
#54. The Iron Rule of prudence for an Istanbulite Woman: If you are as fragile as a tea glass, either find a way to never encounter burning water and hope to marry an ideal husband or get yourself laid and broken as soon as possible. Alternatively, stop being a tea-glass woman!
Elif Shafak
#55. The number one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule and you will be sorry.
Kris Kristofferson
#56. Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have done unto yourself. Every major world religion has this rule in common and a God they should love.
Darrell Mowat
#57. I was reminding myself of the one basic rule for experts on females: confine yourself absolutely to explaining why she did what she has already done because that will save the trouble of explaining why she didn't do what you said she would.
Rex Stout
#58. 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
#59. By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#60. Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.
Milarepa
#61. 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
#62. The most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.
Gary Paulsen
#63. Shutting your heart away and letting bitterness and emptiness rule. Pretending that decay is to be celebrated, and ignoring everything that really matters. Don't you feel yourself disintegrating when you're around them? Feel as if you're getting sucked into their swamp of narcissism and hatred?
Lili Wilkinson
#64. The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.
Anthea Turner
#65. 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
#66. You heard Eric 'Kiddie' Cantor say that he was afraid of mob rule down on Wall Street. Oh, you're afraid, little cutie baby? How about going down there yourself and walking through the crowds?
Gerald Celente
#67. Rule #1 in all bridal magazines. Give yourself a year to plan the
perfect wedding.
Jillian Dodd
#68. The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.
T. Harv Eker
#69. Never ask anyone to do what you haven't done before and wouldn't do again. That's a pretty fundamental rule in leadership ... treat them like you treat yourself. Things you don't like, they don't like.
Ross Perot
#70. Svava: "Rule number one: Never make a fool of yourself."
Riis: "Rule number two: Never be a burden to any one."
Svava: "Rule number three: Always be in the fashion.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
#71. Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.
Douglas William Jerrold
#72. Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others ...
Michael Jackson
#73. The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.
Alan Dershowitz
#74. Rule number one in paying yourself first is: Don't get into consumer debt in the rst place.
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#75. You can only rule over a subject race, especially when you are in a small minority, if you honestly believe yourself to be racially superior, and it helps towards this if you can believe that the subject race is biologically different.
George Orwell
#76. There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.
Chuck Palahniuk
#77. You, and rule!" she said. "You don't rule, don't flatter yourself. You have only got more than your share of the money, and make people work for you for two pounds a week, or threaten them with starvation.
D.H. Lawrence
#78. Accept yourself: be yourself. That seems a good rule. But which self? Even the simplest of us are complicated enough.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
#79. It starts off ridiculous and goes downhill from there as we each take a turn. We dance in a way that's only possible when there are no boys around. The rule is not to take yourself seriously, but whoever gets a solo has to keep as straight a face as possible and go for it.
Melina Marchetta
#80. The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.
George Polya
#81. I refuse to make a decision that somebody else can make. The first rule of leadership is to save yourself for the big decision. Don't allow your mind to become cluttered.
Richard M. Nixon
#82. 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
#83. But may the truth be told. May the true self may be found. May the truth rule the world more than ever. How easy life will be if everyone is just true to themselves, true to their words, true to their actions and true to life?
Diana Rose Morcilla
#84. It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
C.S. Lewis
#85. My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.
Maureen Johnson
#86. I like to work out every day. I run, walk, do machines. I'm not neurotic about food. My rule is, don't let yourself get over a certain weight. If you gain 5lb, stop before it gets worse.
Andie MacDowell
#87. A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#88. Make me proud today, Robmeister. Keep your hands to yourself and remember rule number one above all things.'
'Don't discuss politics.'
'No, the other one.'
Robbie nods. 'Don't eat glue.' He drops his chin. 'It's my weakness.
Jenny B. Jones
#89. The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
Nellie Melba
#90. As a rule, if you insist on speaking your mind, you will inevitably find yourself somewhere where everyone hates you.
Scott Berkun
#91. Challenge who you can be, don't let fate control your future. Fate can come to rule your life if you don't decide for yourselves exactly what you want. It fills in the bits like a mischievous mistress.
Steven Redhead
#92. My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
Art Linkletter
#93. Rule #3 - It's okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.
Bisco Hatori
#94. Thing Rule: You can quit. But you can't quit until the season is over, the tuition payment is up, or some other "natural" stopping point has arrived. You must, at least for the interval to which you've committed yourself, finish whatever you begin. In
Angela Duckworth
#95. I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
Ja Rule
#96. If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'
Adam McKay
#98. VICOMTE DE NANJAC. And you are younger and more C
beautiful than ever. How do you manage it?
MRS. CHEVELEY. By making it a rule only to talk to per- Y
fectly charming people like yourself.
Oscar Wilde
#99. When we're rational about rule-breaking we set a limit. You don't get 30 years in prison for a traffic ticket. But sometimes you sentence yourself to months or years of emotional pain over minor offenses.
David D. Burns
#100. You've learned a new rule and it's simple: don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from.
Lena Dunham
