Precept Quotes
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The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
— Seneca The Elder
The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.
— Calvin Coolidge
AUGUST PULLMAN'S PRECEPTEveryone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcometh the world.
Auggie — R.J. Palacio
Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!
— Paramahansa Yogananda
Practice the precept: find without seeking
— Robert Bresson
Example is the best precept.
— Aesop
I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.
— Adolf Hitler
A good example is far better than a good precept.
— Dwight L. Moody
The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
MR. BROWNE'S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT:WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING
RIGHT OR BEING KIND, CHOOSE KIND. — R.J. Palacio
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
— James Russell Lowell
HENRY JOPLIN'S PRECEPTDon't be friends with jerks. — R.J. Palacio
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.
— Ambrose Bierce
Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
— Seneca The Younger
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
— Seneca The Younger
Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.
— Heber J. Grant
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
— Robert Cecil
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
— James Cash Penney
In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.
— Claude Bernard
Learning to fully understand the doctrines of the gospel is a process of a lifetime and comes 'line upon line, precept upon precept.
— Cheryl A. Esplin
Where is there virtue in this world that is of any practical good whose vital force is not to be found in example rather than in precept?
— Edward Hooker Dewey
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
— Hannah Arendt
An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.
— Ximenes Doudan
The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible ... and to serve others as much as possible.
— Leo Tolstoy
My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.
— Peter Cosgrove
The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
— Dan Pfeiffer
Example is better than precept.
— Margaret Halsey
None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior ...
— James Thayer
The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic fact of national life.
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Sometimes it's good to start over
— R.J. Palacio
Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The simple Wordsworth ... / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose.
— Lord Byron
Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.
— Albert Bandura
Keep in mind God's precept that states, 'Judge not, and you will not be judged' (Lk. 6:37), and in no way meddle in the lives of others.
— Symeon The New Theologian
Example, not precept, is the best teaching aid.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license.
— Aleister Crowley
Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.
— Ellen G. White
The central activity of leadership is teaching - first by example, second by precept.
— M. Russell Ballard
The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.
— Richard Furman
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
— Rene Descartes
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
— Samuel Johnson
women were beginning to see that custom, religious precept, and law were in fact man-made and therefore reversible.
— Adam M. Grant
