Rules Of Life Quotes

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

  Ken Venturi

  Life, Two, Inspire

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• Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.

  Sid Waddell

  Rivals, Golden, Underestimate

  Interview with Jim White, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2002.

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• If you do not step forward you will always remain where you are.

  Nora Roberts

  Steps, Where You Are, Ifs

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• By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Life, Games, Play

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• Silence is sometimes the best answer

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

  Edmund Burke

  Taken, Loss, Opinion

  Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.92

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• When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Buddhist, Acceptance

  "Be Happy the Dalai Lama Way" by Corine Gatti, www.beliefnet.com.

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

  Nora Roberts

  Goal, Want, Maximizing

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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

  Holly Lisle

  Motivational, Actions Have Consequences, Knowing Who You Are

  Holly Lisle (1992). “Fire in the Mist”, Baen Books

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

  W. Edwards Deming

  Learning, Knowledge, Two

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• When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

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• Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Regret, Looks, Life Moves On

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• The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.

  Jason Mraz

  Mind, Made

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• 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

  Life, Benefits, World

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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• Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Advice, Bother, Asks

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• Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

  Rory Miller

  Happens, Picks, Bad Things

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• If you don't ask, the answer is always no.

  Nora Roberts

  Confidence, Business, Answers

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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

  Bill Vaughan

  Upset, Attention, Four

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  Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving On, Letting Go, Spiritual

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• In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Past, Rules To Live By

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• I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn't about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to.

  Robin Wasserman

  Reading, Adventure, Years

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• 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.

  Samuel Butler

  Two, Exception To The Rule, Trying

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• The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Christian, Perfect, Orthodox

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• It seems to be a rule of life that the less qualified you are to give counsel, the more counsel you give.

  Margo Kaufman

  Giving, Qualified, Seems

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