Credo Quotes

• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Success, God

  "Tibet, a Guide to the Land of Fascination". Book by Trilok Chandra Majupuria and Indra Majupuria, 1988.

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• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

  Red Skelton

  Happiness, Laughter, Sadness

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• For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Journey, Doctrine, Departure

  Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven (2002). “Joseph Brodsky: Conversations”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.

  Don King

  Men, Wings, Boxing

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• Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality; it cannot be transferred. No two persons, if sincere, can have the same philosophy.

  Havelock Ellis

  Philosophy, Two, Personality

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• Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

  Gwendoline Riley

  Intimate

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• Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Life, Important, Therapeutic

  Irvin D. Yalom (2012). “Love's Executioner: And Other Tales of Psychotherapy”, p.36, Basic Books

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• When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but I want to change that a half inch,’ and she would say, ‘No limit for better.’ I think that is a worthy credo. You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

  Harrison Ford

  Sorry, Thinking, Looks

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• A dictatorship of relativism is being built that recognizes nothing as definite, and which leaves as the ultimate measure only one's ego and desires ... Having a clear faith, according to the credo of the church, is often labeled as fundamentalism. Yet relativism, that is, letting oneself being carried 'here and there by any wind of doctrine,' appears as the sole attitude good enough for modern times.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Attitude, Wind, Ego

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• You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Integrity, Live Your Life

  "Thinking About Alexander Solzhenitsyn" by Don Meyer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Self, Church

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• US is a very religious country. Separation of church and state is part of our credo, but that it is hard to understand since our money says "In God we trust" and every President says "God bless America".

  Madeleine Albright

  Country, Religious, America

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When [we]were first married, [Wade] begged me to be practical...thank God I lived by my credo: 'Veni, vidi, visa - I came, I saw, I charged it.

  Swoosie Kurtz

  Shopping, Thank God, Wade

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• What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Discipline, Details

  Twitter post from Mar 21, 2016

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• To the young I should offer two maxims: Don't accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo.

  Bertrand Russell

  Two, Littles, Youth

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• my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Art, Firsts, Thirds

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• My credo is etched on my mirror in my bathroom and I see it when I brush my teeth in the morning. It says, "Don't worry, Be Happy, Feel Good." When you see that first thing, and you reflect on it, the rest of the day seems to glide by pretty well.

  Larry Hagman

  Morning, Mirrors, Worry

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• My most basic credo is: I never said freedom was cheap. And it ain't. Never will be. It's been the highest priced and most precious commodity in my life.

  Sonny Barger

  Commodity, Said, Highest

  FaceBook post by Sonny Barger from Nov 05, 2015

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• I can't imagine turning into one of those codgers who no longer reads fiction. I'm regularly stirred by it and suffer no anxiety of influence. Influence me! That was my credo then, as I was developing and learning, and remains so now, as I'm developing and learning.

  Adam Ross

  Anxiety, Suffering, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believe in the old warrior's credo that "to the victor go the spoils."

  Pope Francis

  Believe, Warrior, Spoil

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

  Mason Cooley

  Back Roads, Scepticism

  "City Aphorisms: Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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• A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

  Chris Rose

  New Orleans, Giving, Daiquiris

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for the first time in my life, my belief in man as an individual and independent entity. Certainly not independence in the everyday sense of the word, but pertaining to a freedom and mobility of thought that few people are able - or even have the courage - to achieve.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mean, Independent, Men

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.70, Ballantine Books

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• Credo Mutwa, the most knowledgeable man i have ever had the honor of knowing.

  David Icke

  Men, Knowing, Honor

  "The Biggest Secret: The Book That Will Change the World". Book by David Icke, October 1, 1998.

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• I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Two, Live By, Asks

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