Rules Of Life Quotes

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

God has decided the rules of life, whereby you don’t trespass on anybody else’s rights, and sin is something that upsets the balance of things. There are three types of sin: sin against yourself; sin against other people; and sin against God. People often sin against themselves and others and misbehave with God, too.

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

If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it.

Actions have consequences… first rule of life. And the second rule is this – you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Now come: that thou mayst able be to know
That minds and the light souls of all that live
Have mortal birth and death, I will go on
Verses to build meet for thy rule of life,
Sought after long, discovered with sweet toil.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

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.

The Four Rules of Life:
1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don’t be upset at the results.

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.

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

Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.