Precept Quotes

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

A good example is far better than a good precept.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

Example is the best precept.

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.