Precept Quotes

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. Ronald Reagan
Time Broken Law Every Society Every Time Guilty Must Restore Rather Individual Idea His Accountable Precept Than American Actions Each Each Individual Reject
A good example is far better than a good precept. Dwight L. Moody
Good Better Example Precept Than Far Good Example
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. Rene Descartes
First Single Doubt Never Knew True Until Accept Without Precept Thing
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
Life Wisdom Words Mind Our Color Firmness Talk Well Make Mastery Does Itself Precept Us Much Show Teaches Actions Appetite
All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept. H. P. Lovecraft
Good Will Reading Guide Must Cases More Never Attempts Learner Polish Judicious Cease Effective Begin Precept Than Authors Any Hold Literary Gaining Usage Many Found Amount Phase
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. Quintilian
Experience Valuable Everything More Almost Almost Everything Precept Than
The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.' Daniel Pfeiffer
Drama Obama Most Precept Famous
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps. James Cash Penney
Time Remember Rule Guided Torch My Motto Footsteps Motto Precept The Golden Rule Golden Golden Rule Cannot
A precept or command is a general teaching of God, obligating every man under pain of mortal sin - namely, in cases in which he has fallen away from the command. Hence, the saints who for a period of their life lived hypocritically sinned mortally for that period. So also the damned, by persistent false living, sin persistently in Hell. Jan Hus
Life God Man Hell Pain Living Every Cases General He Mortal Sin Namely Period Also Fallen Saints Command False Sinned Precept Persistent Which Teaching Who Lived Hence Away Every Man
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
Success Failure Mistake Men Example Advice Could Through Never Study Failures Suppose Well Precept Done Taught Succeed Them Much

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