Live By Quotes - Page 24

• I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

  Zubin Mehta

  Doctors, Medicine, University

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• We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.

  Nick Clegg

  Kids, Needs, Culture

  "Jimmy Savile: TV star's sex abuse victims may now total 40" by Ben Rankin, www.mirror.co.uk. October 12, 2012.

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• There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized world. Even when you're fighting your hardest, somewhere deep down, you know how far you can go. But today the rules are gone. Today I fight not to win, but to destroy.

  Neal Shusterman

  Life, Fighting, Winning

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• An honest man is not accountable for the vice and folly of his trade, and therefore ought not to refuse the exercise of it. It is the custom of his country, and there is profit in it. We must live by the world, and such as we find it, so make use of it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Honesty, Exercise

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• Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Character, Simple

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• One of the important principles I live by is the idea that you have to contemplate yourself as surrounded by the conditions you intend to produce.

  Wayne Dyer

  Ideas, Important, Principles

  New Age Retailer Interview, www.drwaynedyer.com. November 2005.

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• Our position has never been that people should be forced out of Scouting. We have always said that the values of Scouting are universal they should be welcome to everyone who is willing to live by the Scout oath and the Scout law.

  Gwen Ifill

  Law, People, Welcome

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Success in TV-showmaking is just a matter of being authentic and doing the best you can, and you hope that people watch it and like it. For us [showmakers], we know where our bread is buttered, and we live by the written word of the critic. That's how shows build a critical mass on cable.

  Walton Goggins

  People, Matter, Bread

  Source: collider.com

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• Man does not live by destruction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Doe, Destruction

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.77, Courier Corporation

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• The way God teaches us to live by faith is He takes away our feelings.

  Rick Warren

  Feelings, Way, Teach

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• A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.

  Trick Daddy

  Thug, Decision, Skins

  Trick Daddy, Peter Bailey (2010). “Magic City: Trials of a Native Son”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,
  A motley fool! a miserable world!
  As I do live by food, I met a fool
  Who laid him down and basked him in the sun
  And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms,
  In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Down And, Fool

  1599-1600 Jaques. AsYou Like It, act 2, sc.7, l.12-17.

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• Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside

  Anne Sexton

  Lilies, Born, Mailboxes

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on

  Tucker Max

  Running, Easter, Children

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

  Tillie Olsen

  Character, Special, Literature

  Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.96, Rutgers University Press

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• If I live by illusions, you live by excuses.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Fear, Illusion, Excuse

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• We can grow good wheat and make good bread only if we understand that we do not live by bread alone.

  Wendell Berry

  Bread, Wheat, Grows

  Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”

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• ...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

  Massad Ayoob

  Law, Agree, Illusory

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• Being an atheist makes someone a clearer thinking, fairer person. They [atheists] are not doing things to be rewarded in heaven; they're doing things because they're right, because they live by a moral code.

  Ricky Gervais

  Atheist, Thinking, Heaven

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• When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Together, Lasts, Contradicting

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Illusion, Knows

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• The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws of civilized nations,-he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which he tills, is, by the constitution of our nature, under a wholesome influence, not easily imbibed from any other source.

  Edward Everett

  Men, Law, Land

  Edward Everett (1839). “Selections from the Works of Edward Everett: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.62

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• It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.

  Bo Derek

  Believe, People, Decision

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• Truth only seems old fashioned nowadays because we've grown so accustomed to deceit and manipulation. But Truth is eternal, so it can never be old or new. It never 'was' or 'will be.' It just 'is.' It always 'is.' Truth never grows old, and if you believe in it and try to live by it, you will always be, in some ways - the only ways that matter - the youngest, freshest, most energetic rebel on the block.

  Matt Walsh

  Block, Believe, Trying

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• Only Jesus Christ is uniquely qualified to provide that hope, that confidence, and that strength we need to overcome the world and rise above our human failings. To do so, we must place our faith in Him and live by His laws and teachings.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Jesus, Teaching, Law

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