Rules Quotes
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.
Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.
This is one rule about mixing boys and girls: that a date always comes first.
The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.
Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.
This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?
Act like a champion, and then become one.
It is action that creates motivation.
If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.
Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.
The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.
I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.
One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.
It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.
That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.
Can I request another peer guide, One who isn't so happy to be at school at 7:30 a.m.?
I'd made a long list of exceptions to cover the area between "ignoring her completely" and "abducting her at knifepoint.
The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.
It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.
Lovers and warriors are not bound by the rules of fair play.
And while my mind is telling me I'm flirting with her just to prove a point, my body wants to play "you show me your perky privates and I'll show you mine.
I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.
Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.
Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you think before you break 'em.
For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.
If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress
When you think a positive thought, you become positive.
See it first in your mind, then become it.
Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.
If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.
The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.
Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.
The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.
To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.
It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.
I don't have storyboards, but I have some very strict rules, like not moving the camera.
The Gospel teaches us what Jesus' kingdom requires of us... Reminds us that closeness and tenderness are the rules of life.