Precept Quotes
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
James Cash Penney
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.
Edith Stein
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
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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Hannah Arendt
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.
Samuel Smiles
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes