120 No Exception Quotes

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Famous No Exception Quotes

There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception. — James Thurber

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. - Margaret Fuller

Nature provides exceptions to every rule. — Margaret Fuller

All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false. — Kurt Gödel

Blanket statements are always stupid. NO EXCEPTIONS! — Craig Benzine

no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white. — Karl Popper

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. — Frank Zappa

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items. - Phil Crosby

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items. — Phil Crosby

It's coexistence or no existence. - Bertrand Russell

It's coexistence or no existence. — Bertrand Russell

Expect the unexpected. — Bear Bryant

We make allowance for necessity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are no ordinary moments. - Dan Millman

There are no ordinary moments. — Dan Millman

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful. - William Morris

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful. — William Morris

Extinction is the rule, survival is the exception. — Carl Sagan

People who try to look smart by pointing out obvious exceptions actually signal the opposite. — Naval Ravikant

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing - Giacomo Casanova

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing — Giacomo Casanova

Short No Exception Quotes

  • Without error there can be no brilliancy — Emanuel Lasker
  • The only rule is that there are no rules. — Del Close
  • Anything less than the best is a felony. — Vanilla Ice
  • Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! — Edsger Dijkstra
  • All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door. — Woody Allen
  • The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Progress is impossible without change — Walt Disney
  • everything changes, nothing perishes — Ovid
  • There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. — Robert Burns
  • There are no coincidences. — Kami Garcia

Top 10 No Exception Quotes

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own. — John Calvin

My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God. — Nipsey Hussle

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands. — Bruce Lee

No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah. — Ibn Taymiyyah

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. - Les Brown

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. — Les Brown

...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions. — Joseph M. Juran

To change one's life: a. Start immediately b. B. Do it flamboyantly c. No exceptions Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted. — William James

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet. — Muammar al-Gaddafi

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings — Arthur Rubinstein

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks. — Countee Cullen

No Exception Image Quotes

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. - Mark Twain quote

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. — Mark Twain

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension. - John Steinbeck quote

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension. — John Steinbeck

No exception quote People don't realize that now is all there ever is; There is no past or future except as memory or a
People don't realize that now is all there ever is; There is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard quote

There is no failure except in no longer trying. — Elbert Hubbard

No exception quote People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.
People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves.

Can't Have Everything Quotes

You can't have everything. Where would you put it? - Steven Wright

You can't have everything. Where would you put it? — Steven Wright

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out. — B. F. Skinner

My military service is the thing I'm most proud of, but when I think of everything happening in the Middle East, I can't help but tell myself I wish we would have achieved some sort of lasting victory. No one touched that subject before Trump, especially not in the Republican Party. — James David Vance

No exception quote I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people. — Lee Iacocca

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money. - Blake Griffin

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money. — Blake Griffin

Just be yourself and everything will fall in line, the way it's supposed to be. If you're yourself, that's the best thing you can do, because you can never go "damn if I'd only been myself." Live an authentic life and you don't have to worry about your reputation. — Joan Jett

No exception quote To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run. — Lewis B. Smedes

I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along. — Michael Phelps

Whether we're fighting climate change or going to space, everything is moved forward by computers, and we don't have enough people who can code — Richard Branson

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go. — Sarah Dessen

No Means No Quotes

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning. — Idi Amin

Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society . . . but for me and no one else, education means making creators. . . . You have to make inventors, innovators...not conformists — Jean Piaget

There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. — Ayn Rand

No exception quote I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means. — Aneurin Bevan

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. - Henry Ford

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking. — Henry Ford

No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means. — J. R. D. Tata

No exception quote Use what talent you possess; the wood would be very silent if no bird sang except those that sang be
Use what talent you possess; the wood would be very silent if no bird sang except those that sang best.

Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system. — Le Corbusier

If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it. Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers. — Joseph Murphy

Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience. — Jaggi Vasudev

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others. — Charles R. Swindoll

How To Say No Quotes

Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war? — Daniel Berrigan

How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? …How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.”? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it! — Paul Washer

Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea. — Stanley Kubrick

No exception quote Everything is shit except you
Everything is shit except you

Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed. — Catharine MacKinnon

You need to learn how to start saying no to things you do want to do, with the recognition that you have only one life. — Oliver Burkeman

How can you lay claim to faith, when you have no patience at all. Surely you must have heard the saying of the prophet, peace and blessings be upon him "patience is to faith, as the head is to the body." — Abdul-Qadir Gilani

No exception quote There is nothing permanent except change.
There is nothing permanent except change.

If you can learn how to say No skillfully and wisely, you can create what you want, protect what you value, and change what doesn’t work. — William Ury

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. — Abraham Lincoln

Looking back, I've learned the most from the bad coaches, really, how not to act, how not to coach, how not to treat people. So I always say no matter what situations you're faced with, how bad it is, you can always walk away and learn. You can always rise above it. — Jennie Finch

I think a lot of social media creators have always been, like, content and haven't pushed the limits because no one else had pushed the limits before. I say to myself, 'How can I create my own TV show online every day and actually make it a real production and put effort into it?' — Jake Paul

Making Exception Quotes

I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever. — Ferdinand Marcos

You can’t be great if you don’t feel great. Make exceptional health your priority. — Robin S. Sharma

Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it. — Leo Tolstoy

No exception quote Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achie
Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor. — Lenny Bruce

Nothing matters except life and the love you make. — Chris Martin

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. - Theodosius Dobzhansky

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. — Theodosius Dobzhansky

No exception quote I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.
I'm not a fan of idleness, except in small doses.

We have more than enough to take care of everybody on earth at this time. If we have a shortage of anything, it's very easy for science to make a substitute material. There's no shortage of anything except brains in Washington. — Jacque Fresco

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. — Dale Carnegie

The only way that you can make the most money is to provide an exceptional valued service and charge a ton of money for it. — Alex Hormozi

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. - Jane Addams

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. — Jane Addams

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More No Exception Quotes

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes. — Martin Luther

I will place no value on anything I have or may possess, except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. If anything will advance the interests of that kingdom, it shall be given away or kept only in reference to whether giving or keeping will most promote the glory1 of him to whom I owe all my hopes in time and eternity. — David Livingstone

I am pleased that I am able to stand here today and say with a pure heart and meaningful heart that I am against the death penalty. There is no purpose that it serves except to further the damage that death has already done. — Mamie Till

Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights. — Marquis de Lafayette

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's. — George Balanchine

The trouble is that we do not have the power of God in a full manifestation because of our finite thoughts, but as we go on and let God have His way, there is no limit to what our limitless God will do in response to a limitless faith. But you will never get anywhere except you are in constant pursuit of all the power of God. — Smith Wigglesworth

Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether that be a Muslim (Bosniak), Serb or Croat. Everyone can be what they feel that they are, and no one has a right to force a nationality upon them. — Josip Broz Tito

Some cultures ate nothing but meat, while others were mostly vegetarian. Some relied primarily on homemade cheese; others consumed no dairy at all. Their teeth were almost always perfect; their mouths were exceptionally wide, nasal apertures broad. They suffered few, if any, cavities and little dental disease. — James Nestor

I feel that the recent ruling of the United States Army and Navy regarding the refusal of colored blood donors is an indefensible one from any point of view. As you know, there is no scientific basis for the separation of the bloods of different races except on the basis of the individual blood types or groups. — Charles R. Drew

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government. — William Vickrey

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance. — Tom G. Palmer

Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses. — Francis Parkman

I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it. — Billy Graham

There is no reality except the one contained within us. — Hermann Hesse

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes. — William E. Gladstone

People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd. — J. P. Morgan

To make a judgment you need to compare a current observation to one you’ve made in the past. To be anxious you need to think about the future and anticipate that it’ll be worse than the present. To be bored you need to long for a state other than what’s happening in the present. To be ashamed you need to re-create a moment that no longer exists. To be unhappy you need to focus on what you want that you don’t yet have. With the exception of pain, no one ever suffered from what was going on in the present moment. — Mo Gawdat

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope. — Irving Layton

When church is over and there's no one there to listen except the only One who matters, do you still have that same passionate joy in your spirit, just to be alone with the Living God? — Keith Green

It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity. — Richard Yates

The research suggests that, with a few exceptions, major events or traumas that occur even three months earlier have little to no effect on our present happiness. The reason is that we are able to make our own happiness. We change the way we see the world so that we can feel better. — William Ury

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. — Ronald Reagan

A friend of ours said if the same laws were applied to U.S. Presidents as were applied to the Nazis after WWII, that every single one of them, every last rich white one of them, from Truman on would be hung to death and shot. And this current administration is no exception. They should be hung and tried and shot as war criminals. — Zack de la Rocha

There's no such thing as a good gun. There's no such thing as a bad gun. A gun in the hands of a bad man is a very dangerous thing. A gun in the hands of a good person is no danger to anyone except the bad guys. — Charlton Heston

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind. — Claude Debussy

Repressive regimes do not endure change willingly - and Venezuela is no exception. — Leopoldo Lopez

No exceptional person ever lived like an average person. — Andrew Tate

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. — Arthur Rubinstein

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle. — James Hutton

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