80 Guideline Quotes

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Famous Guideline Quotes

To advise is not to compel. — Proverbs

I think the best approach is not to be too much like the thing that they are referring to, see it as a guide. — Michael Craig-Martin

Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting. — Georg Cantor

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide. — Thomas Keller

Once you have a plan, always invest within the boundaries and parameters of your plan. Never bend your rules to accommodate your guts. — Naved Abdali

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there. — Gary Oldman

Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension. — Charlie Fowler

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is advantageous to follow advice, for you will succeed in life. — Filipino Proverbs

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. - Brian Tracy

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. — Brian Tracy

A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success. — Michael Porter

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve. — Tony Robbins

The standards you establish for others must reflect the standards you set for yourself. No one will follow a hypocrite. — Lou Holtz

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft — Nido R Qubein

Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand. — Tony Robbins

Short Guideline Quotes

  • To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them. — Nadia Boulanger
  • Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines. — David Letterman
  • It was a good opportunity to show the Reds the guidelines on the catwalk. — Jonny Gomes
  • Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. — Stephen Covey
  • Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. — Robert H. Schuller
  • Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality. — Phil Ochs
  • Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code! — Harold H. Greene
  • History provides no precise guidelines. — Douglas Hurd
  • The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS. — Bryan White
  • None of great sages of China preached the precept of love as a guideline for human behavior. — James Thayer

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Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone. — Vincent Van Gogh

We are of such value to God that He came to live among us... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love. — St. Catherine of Siena

The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin. — Dwight L. Moody

The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us. - John Dickinson

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us. — John Dickinson

Hang that question up in your houses, "What would Jesus do?" and then think of another, "How would Jesus do it?" for what he would do, and how he would do it, may always stand as the best guide to us. — Charles Spurgeon

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us. - Dennis Banks

The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us. — Dennis Banks

If we communicate the vision behind our ideas the purpose guiding our products people will flock to us. — Adam Grant

Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star. — Charlotte Bronte

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. — Thomas Jefferson

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More Guideline Quotes

The #1 guideline to success is you must be in business for yourself. When you work for someone else, you sell your time at wholesale to your employer, who then re-sells it at retail to the customer. — J. Paul Getty

It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. — Marcia Angell

Today there are not even enough fruits and vegetables in this country to allow all Americans to follow the government guidelines to eat five to nine servings a day. — Mark Hyman, M.D.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. — Bertrand Russell

We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on Earth. — Caitlin Moran

Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the world of D&D, at least there was a rule book... By role-playing, we were in control, and our characters... wandered through places of danger, their destinies, ostensibly, within our grasp. — Ethan Gilsdorf

According to Ayurvedic principles, by understanding oneself, by identifying one's own constitution, and by recognizing sources of doshic aggravation, one can not only follow the proper guidelines to cleanse, purify, and prevent disease, but also uplift oneself into a realm of awareness previously unknown. — Vasant Lad

My stuff is my stuff. I do it for my own reasons, using my own peculiar set of guidelines. I'm not a student of the genre. I don't care what anybody else does. — George A. Romero

The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust. — Anthony Kennedy

And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you. — Brandi Chastain

I think my guideline has been to find things that inspire me. And as long as I stick to that, I don't think I'll have any problems crossing over to becoming an adult actress. — Elisabeth Moss

A lot of people put pressure on themselves and think it will be way too hard for them to live out their dreams. Mentors are there to say, 'Look, it's not that tough. It's not as hard as you think. Here are some guidelines and things I have gone through to get to where I am in my career.' — Joe Jonas

The Bible reveals the Father's overall plan for the world and provides general guidelines for life. But how can we know His specific plans for us? Listening to God is essential to walking with God. — Charles Stanley

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity. — Roger Wolcott Sperry

There is no such thing as an average person. They really are guidelines for people to grapple with the unknown, and we can always surprise expectations. — Daniel Tammet

Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general. — M. C. Escher

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. — Belva Lockwood

EPA gets to set a standard for new. For the existing, EPA sets guidelines for what we think is appropriate, but then states develop plans that work for them, taking into consideration their specific energy mix. — Gina McCarthy

My guideline has always been to avoid a focus on me personally. Not because of any deep, dark secrets. Rather just a sense of privacy. — Bill Gates

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation. — Belva Ann Lockwood

Contrary to a common myth, while there are general guidelines, there is no exact 'right' way to run ... I am amazed by the many ways people move forward. — Grete Waitz

We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore. — Todd English

If you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not like the Zapatistas were reading European social theory. — Rebecca Solnit

We live in a complex world. There are many forces calling out, 'Love me.' A sure way to set our guidelines for that which we choose to serve and learn to love is to follow the admonition of Joshua: 'As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. — Marvin J. Ashton

I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves. — Moshe Safdie

Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55. — Kenneth H. Cooper

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. — Paulo Freire

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done. — Alan Thicke

Microsoft obviously takes way too long to fix flaws, .. All researchers should follow responsible disclosure guidelines, but if a vendor like Microsoft takes six months to a year to fix a flaw, a researcher has every right to release the details. — Bill Vaughan

Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business. — Juliana Hatfield

Go with your first thoughts; they're usually your best thoughts. Pay attention, stick to your goals and follow those guidelines. It's all right there if you reach for it, unless you want to punch timeclocks and work for somebody. That's what we liked about America, the land of opportunity. All your dreams can come true. — Rick Danko

Without having some kind of parameters placed on a coach, the reality is they could all have a different vision of what a kid's limit is in the heat, ... The policy itself that was adopted by the OSAA executive board gives the coaches some parameters as to how to structure their practices and guidelines to follow. — Brad Garrett

The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided. — Martti Ahtisaari

In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny. — Robin Jones Gunn

Your best thing for you to do is learn how to listen and follow positive guidelines which is a skill and to be determined and consistent and you're going to go places in life not only whether you sing but you're getting a basic finish background to do anything you want to do in life. — Maxine Powell

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