Able Quote by Marcus Aurelius

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

— Marcus Aurelius

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward…

— John Stuart Mill

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain…

— Thomas Carlyle

If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him... Those who will not…

— William Penn

Thou mayest rule over sin.

— John Steinbeck

What thou intendest to do, speak not of before thou doest it.

— Pittacus of Mytilene

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

— Bahá'u'lláh

“There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.”

— Aleister Crowley

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

— Douglas Bader

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander.

— Yehuda Bauer

There are no rules in the service of God, and this itself is no rule.

— Yehudi Menuhin