62 Stringent Quotes
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Famous Stringent Quotes
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. — Marcus Aurelius
Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small. — Donald Rumsfeld
In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others. — Maimonides
Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth. — Nouman Ali Khan
It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others. — Richard Sibbes
Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others — Peter Abelard
We make no apologies for setting high standards. — Nancy L. Zimpher
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind. — Francois FeNelon
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. — Euripides
Be hard on yourself, easy on others. — Al-Shafi‘i
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. — Teresa of Avila
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. — Victor Hugo
High standards protect you from low-quality experiences. — Andrew Tate
We have very high standards and it works. Our business is wonderful as a result. — Jim Simons
Hard words are very rarely useful. Real firmness is good for every thing. Strut is good for nothing. — Alexander Hamilton
Short Stringent Quotes
- The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before. — Wolfgang Smith
- Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business. — Chuck Jones
- We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime. — Donald Trump
- I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature. — Philip Roth
- If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone. — Bob Dylan
- Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us. — Sara Sheridan
People Writing About Stringent
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Marcus Aurelius |
770 | 19093 |
 Donald Rumsfeld |
217 | 937 |
 Maimonides |
118 | 2404 |
 Nouman Ali Khan |
83 | 10284 |
 Richard Sibbes |
71 | 490 |
 Peter Abelard |
24 | 391 |
More Stringent Quotes
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. — Samuel Smiles
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. — Ulysses S. Grant
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack. — Voltaire
What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner. — M. Scott Peck
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures — Albert Bandura
I don't want to paint myself as some villain - I was never a bad guy doing horrible things, but I got too caught up in wanting a very specific thing to happen to the band. Ultimately, I had to find the ability in myself to get over that and stop being so stringent and learn to laugh a little bit more. — Andy Biersack
Look, every institution will make mistakes. I acknowledge we make mistakes, and they can hurt my reputation and our company's. But you also must be willing to let go a little bit, trust others, and not always be so stringent, provided you have robust controls. — Jamie Dimon
The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between Boston Brahmin and Boston lace-curtain Irish, though much finer. — Diana Trilling
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions. — William J. Brennan
If even one new drug of the stature of penicillin or digitalis has been unjustifiably banished to a company's back shelf because of exceedingly stringent regulatory requirements, that event will have harmed more people than all the toxicity that has occurred in the history of modern drug development. — William Wardell
There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...It is statistically irrefutable that those American cities with stringent "gun control" (e.g. N.Y.C., D.C., Chicago, L.A.) have higher crime rates. It is also irrefutable that those 31 states which have made conceal carry of handguns easy for law-abiding citizens have correspondingly enjoyed significant drops in their crime rates. — Kenneth W. Royce
Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislative as an agent in human advancement has been much over-estimated. No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident or the drunken sober. — Samuel Smiles
Repetition acts as an enforcement mechanism: It makes cooperation achievable when it is not achievable in the one-shot game, even when one replaces strategic equilibrium as the criterion for achievability by the more stringent requirement of perfect equilibrium. — Robert Aumann
But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. It does not even protect a man from an injunction against uttering words that may have all the effect of force. The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The man, most man,Works best for men, and, if most men indeed,He gets his manhood plainest from his soul:While, obviously, this stringent soul itselfObeys our old rules of development;The Spirit ever witnessing in ours,And Love, the soul of soul, within the soul,Evolving it sublimely. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I wish that there were more stringent laws to make guns sold anywhere that they're legal harder to get. — Rosie O'Donnell
This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life. — Julianne Moore
I think the NFL needs a more stringent policy when it comes to domestic violence. Make the punishment work. — Booger McFarland
Writing, for me, has to do with liberty of mind. The liberty to intuit, assess, be surprised, even to be ashamed and reconsider. To feel the integrity and generosity of words, but also their disruptive violence and volatility. To even begin to do them justice requires a radical letting go and stringent attention. I was interested in following that impulse toward liberty. — Laurie Sheck
The more stringent the rules and the more limiting they are, the more the poet and writer is forced to resort to special techniques and intricacies to escape them. And these techniques and intricacies adorn the writing and make it more beautiful. But, in the modern world, linguistic intricacies and embellishments do not attract much attention anymore, and the more sincere and intimate the relationship between a work and its reader, the better. — Simin Behbahani
By the same token, the new and stringent Ultramontanism on the Catholic Left - in which even the mildest questions about how things are working in this pontificate are denounced as treasonous disloyalty - is an affront to the open conversation for which the pope [FRANCIS] has called. — George Weigel
So many states are putting very stringent regulations on women that block them from exercising that choice to the extent that they are defunding Planned Parenthood, which, of course, provides all kinds of cancer screenings and other benefits for women in our country. — Hillary Clinton
Look, there is parliamentary democracy in most European countries, there is parliamentary democracy in Japan, there is parliamentary democracy in many countries, but in the United States, for some reason, the State is organized differently, there is quite a stringent presidential republic. — Vladimir Putin
Every culture feels like their parents are the most stringent as far as, "We came to this country to work hard, we want you to be a doctor or a lawyer." — Ato Essandoh
Rs 6500 crore disclosed under compliance window of black money & foreign assets law. People fear the law that has now been created. Stringent provisions will not be diluted despite pressures. — Narendra Modi
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights. — Samuel Smiles
If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them — Stephen King
I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a writer is to follow your initial [writing] plan too stringently. A story needs room to grow and evolve. — Patrick Rothfuss
The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage, and by that right, he has forged chains around his limbs. The reward that he receives is stringent labor laws prohibiting the right of boycott, of picketing, of everything, except the right to be robbed of the fruits of his labor. — Emma Goldman
The 'deep' civic function of the humanities . . . is something understood very well by totalitarian societies, which tend to keep close tabs on them, and to circumscribe them in direct proportion to how stringently the population is controlled. — Mark Slouka
You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it. — Bronwyn Bishop
Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more? — Libba Bray
i've never asked him but i'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his strubbery — Cassandra Clare
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