Golden Rule Quotes

People who desire to acquire success need to have knowledge ~ Sunday Adelaja

The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule ~ Leonard Cohen

Taoism ~ There is no 'other'. All is One. ~ Leland Lewis

The thoughts that you will never make it comes to every person who ever did something great in their lives ~ Sunday Adelaja

You want the approval of those with whom you come in contact. You want recognition of your true worth. You want a feeling that you are important in your little world. You don't want to listen to cheap, insincere flattery, but you do crave sincere appreciation. You want your friends and associates to be, as Charles Schwab put it, "hearty in their approbation and lavish in their praise." All of us want that. So let's obey the Golden Rule, and give unto others what we would have others give unto us. How? When? Where? The answer is: All the time, everywhere. ~ Dale Carnegie

Golden Rule has been rediscovered many times: by the authors of Leviticus and the Mahabharata; by Hillel, Jesus, and Confucius; by the Stoic philosophers of the Roman Empire; by social contract theorists such as Hobbes, Rousseau, and Locke; and by moral philosophers such as Kant in his categorical imperative. ~ Steven Pinker

Do nothing unto anyone that you would not like to have done unto yourself. Seek peace, and never be the aggressor - but if anyone attacks you, we do not teach you to turn the other cheek. ~ Malcolm X

God made us for a specific purpose ~ Sunday Adelaja

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others! ~ Anne Frank

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics. ~ Julian Baggini

Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to do so? Then, will it be right on your part to ask others to do the same thing just to satisfy your desires? If you cannot tolerate infliction of pain on your body or mind by others' words and actions, what right have you to do the same to others through your words and deeds?
Do unto others as you would like to be done by. Injury or violence done by you to any life in any form, animal or human, is as harmful as it would e if caused to your own self. ~ Mahavira

Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill. ~ Gautama Buddha

Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker ... the social instincts, - the prime principle of man's moral constitution - with the aid of active intellectual powers and the effects of habit, naturally lead to the golden rule, "As ye would that men should do to you; do ye to them likewise"; and this lies at the foundation of morality. ~ Charles Darwin

The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the centre of your heart filled with love. ~ Amit Ray

The golden rule would be to write a great, authentic song that is well produced and it will find its home. The audience can feel whether or not the artist is being genuine in their music. It's up to the artist to have the courage to reveal their truth through their songs. ~ Wendy Starland

Perspective taking is taking on the perspective of others. It's what we do anytime we buy a gift for someone else ("What would they like?"). So it means breaking the golden rule ("Treat others the way you want to be treated") and instead, acknowledges that others may not want what you want. ~ David Livermore

Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you. ~ Confucius

Well," Adam said, leaning back and sighing, "I've got that out of my system now. I can leave you alone for the rest of the day. I always say, if you kiss the girl at the start of the date, it takes the pressure off."
"Oh, really, is that what you always say?" I said.
"Always. It's my golden rule. I've literally been saying it since ... since I met you again in Princeton. Well, I suppose it came a bit after that. I've
definitely been saying it all morning. ~ Kate Le Vann

We, as children of God, have an advantage over the world ~ Sunday Adelaja

My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right. ~ Monte Irvin

We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others. ~ Lisa Hammond

That which you do not wish for yourself, do not impose on others. ~ Umar

Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals. ~ Sid Waddell

Golden Rule lies at the heart of every religious and of every ethical system of morality, it what makes us look at one another. The religions have all adopted it independently, Chinese, Indian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, because they find it works and because it says something very deep about the structure of our humanity. ~ Karen Armstrong

Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule. ~ Tina Weymouth

Well, I think the golden rule I can think of is the fact that you must follow your passion and do something that's close to your heart. And I think that that's very important, well, to be successful and to be happy. ~ Kumar Mangalam Birla

Manners are really the basis for how we treat other people - manners are born out of compassion, empathy, the "golden rule." Manners are, quite simply, making people feel welcome, comfortable, and respected. ~ Brian Grazer

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule. ~ Ronald Reagan

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves. ~ Toni Cade Bambara

Everything happens for a reason.

Do not do unto others what you do not want others do unto you. ~ The Golden Rule

When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops. ~ Joyce Rachelle

If it was true that all effort led to a vast abyss, she had two recommendations to begin with, first, not to cheat people, and, second, to treat them properly. Beyond that, there was room for discussion. ~ Roberto Bolano

Why should I have to hide the fact that I don't believe there's a supreme being? There's no proof of it. There's no harm in saying you're an atheist. It doesn't mean you treat people any differently. I live by the Golden Rule to do unto others, as you'd want to be treated.
I just simply don't believe in religion, and I don't believe necessarily that there's a supreme being that watches over all of us. I follow the teachings of George Carlin. George said he worshipped the sun. He was a fellow atheist. I'm in good company ... Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Charles Darwin. It's not like I'm not with good company and intelligent people. There have been some good, intelligent atheists who have lived in the world. ~ Jesse Ventura

The key for having success is totally rejecting thoughts that try to sow doubts into your conscience ~ Sunday Adelaja

If we continually walk with God, if He lives in us and we in Him, then every mountain according to the Word of God will melt before us ~ Sunday Adelaja

I don't believe in the war god of the Israelites. He's a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large. ~ Terry Pratchett

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' ... The twenty-five percent is for error. ~ Linus Pauling

Treat each other the way you would like to be treated. ~ Peter Steele

But no matter their [carousels] colors, the horses all go at the same speed as they circle round and round. They start together. They finish together, too. Nobody is first and nobody is last. Everyone is equal when you ride a carousel. ~ Sharon Langley

Any serious pondering of all of life through the Golden Rule is dangerous for our moral health because it will summon us - I know I feel this way just writing the above paragraphs - to live under the King and as one of his kingdom citizens. ~ Scot McKnight

Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others ... ~ Michael Jackson

We must remember that regardless of our differences in rank we are all equal as human beings. You can always tell how caring and compassionate others are in their actions towards those "below" them. Of course you are going to treat your black belt professor kindly, but how do you treat the white belt taking their first class? In spite of the division in belt rank there must be no division as people. ~ Chris Matakas

This is the church that Stanley High spoke of when he said: The church has failed to tell me that I am a sinner. The church has failed to deal with me as a lost individual. The church has failed to offer me salvation in Jesus Christ alone. The church has failed to tell me of the horrible consequences of sin, the certainty of hell, and the fact that Jesus Christ alone can save. We need more of the last judgment and less of the Golden Rule, more of the living God and the living devil as well, more of a heaven to gain and a hell to shun. The church must bring me not a message of cultivation but of rebirth. I might fail that kind of church, but that kind of church will not fail me. ~ J. Vernon McGee

Netiquette: The social code of network communication. Internet code of conduct based on the Golden Rule. Ethical philosophy of common rules. ~ David Chiles

The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

At Auschwitz, everything was either ass-backward or a corruption of itself. The Ten Commandments were turned on their head-- thou shalt kill, thou shalt steal, thou shalt covet-- the Golden Rule nonexistent. Here, the weak were at the mercy of the strong-- the lame, sick, and feeble treated not with kindness but contempt. Here, nothing was less valuable than the life of a human being; a crust of bread, a pack of cigarettes, a needle and thread were worth more. Women with children and the elderly were the first to die, not the last. Here, people went to the hospital to be killed, not cured. ~ J. Michael Dolan

Am I sitting here now, months later, in Los Angeles, writing all this down, because I want my life to matter? Maybe so. But I don't want it to matter more than others.
I want to remember, or to learn, how to live as if it matters, as if they all matter, even if they don't. ~ Maggie Nelson

The golden rule is, to help those we love to escape from us. ~ Friedrich Von Hugel

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness."
Madness doubled is marriage
I added
when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce
a golden rule. ~ Anne Carson

We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can. ~ Ken Wilber

What's the golden rule of social networking?"
Luther hangs up his coat. "Don't do it? ~ Neil Cross

I was a drug dealer in Ibiza at 15. I did not excel in drug dealing - I was terrible at it. Golden rule with drug dealing - don't get too enthusiastic with your own merchandise. ~ Lily Allen

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.' ~ Orison Swett Marden

I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way. ~ Richard Stallman

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enjoined to do as we would be done by. ~ Herman Melville

Three ideas stand out above all others in the influence they have exerted and are destined to exert upon the development of the human race: The idea of the Golden Rule; the idea of natural law; the idea of age-long growth or evolution. ~ Robert Andrews Millikan

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules. ~ Buzzie Bavasi

There is no golden rule of dating, except to make sure that it engages both of you; too many people go to a cinema for a first date and of course don't say a word, that's a bad thing! ~ Steven Hill

The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself. ~ Barry Eisler

The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right. ~ C.S. Lewis

God has received us into His family, He is the possessor of everything ~ Sunday Adelaja

Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently decided are moral for other reasons, while ignoring those teachings with which they disagree. ~ Victor J. Stenger

A sadist is a masochist who follows the golden rule ~ Thomas Cathcart

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. ~ George Bernard Shaw

There is only one limitation that exists in our minds, which can indeed reduce the speed of our progress; that is the limitation of our understanding ~ Sunday Adelaja

If everyone realized the value of life, the world would be peaceful. The meaning of these words, "Do unto others as you would have them, do unto you," would be understood: It would be practiced. ~ Ellen J. Barrier

Golden Rule - whoever has the gold makes the rules. ~ Rysa Walker

At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people. ~ Chad Kroeger

When you're kind to people, and you pay attention, you make a field of comfort around them, and you get it back - the Golden Rule meets the Law of Karma meets Murphy's Law. ~ Anne Lamott

If you remember the golden rule of never saying no to judges and people with guns, you can go through the rest of your life realising that you have choice in every situation. ~ Max Robberts

Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it! ~ Tom Peters

My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another. ~ Art Linkletter

God put a certain potential into us that is totally sufficient to carry out the assigned task ~ Sunday Adelaja

The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience. ~ Oswald Chambers

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice, it's an investment. ~ Byllye Avery

Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust. ~ Bob Burg

Success in war depends upon the golden rule of war. ~ George S. Patton

Here is a golden Rule ... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule! ~ Lewis Carroll

I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold ... Rules. ~ Mr. T

Truth demands progress and change, and is always for the benefit of all souls - even if you must travel through a difficult learning process or make a shift as a result of facing the truth. ~ Molly Friedenfeld

I think that in a family some are workers some are not. I certainly saw my mother work very hard and be in charge and never show any kind of fear about business deals. Her golden rule was you should never be embarrassed talking about money and asking for what you deserved. I take the same view. ~ Anne Robinson

A great leader must always keep in mind the golden rule: respect for their subordinates.
Tribute to Noah Sealth. ~ Miguel El Portugues

The remedy for most marital stress is not in divorce. It is in repentance and forgiveness, in sincere expressions of charity and service. It is not in separation. It is in simple integrity that leads a man and a woman to square up their shoulders and meet their obligations. It is found in the Golden Rule, a time-honored principle that should first and foremost find expression in marriage. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

I don't want to believe in boxes or one-way relationships; I'm naïve, you see. I'd rather moon the moon than flip off a friend, but sometimes I flip so I don't get flipped. And I still think I'm misunderstanding the Golden Rule. ~ Chila Woychik

Your old traditional way of thinking is your problem ~ Sunday Adelaja

My parents really did believe in the Golden Rule. They really did believe that all people should be treated equally. They had friends of every culture, we celebrated different holidays, but really, secretly behind it, they had no problem telling me who I couldn't marry. ~ Diane Farr

The golden rule is even more golden in our hyperconnected world. An important lesson to learn: If you talk about someone on the Internet, they will find out. Everybody has a Google alert on their name. ~ Austin Kleon

The Golden Rule is clear: do not sound like a lawyer any more than is absolutely necessary. ~ Keith Evans

King Alfred's Book of Laws, or Dooms, as set out in the existing laws of Kent, Wessex, and Mercia, attempted to blend the Mosaic code with Christian principles and old Germanic customs. He inverted the Golden Rule. Instead of "Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you", he adopted the less ambitious principle, "What ye will that other men should not do to you, that do ye not to other men", with the comment, "By bearing this precept in mind a judge can do justice to all men; he needs no other law-books. Let him think of himself as the plaintiff, and consider what judgment would satisfy him." The King, in his preamble, explained modestly that "I have not dared to presume to set down in writing many laws of my own, for I cannot tell what will meet with the approval of our successors. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Satanism advocates practicing a modified form of the Golden Rule. Our interpretation of this rule is: "Do unto others as they do unto you"; because if you "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and they, in turn, treat you badly, it goes against human nature to continue to treat them with consideration. You should do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but if your courtesy is not returned, they should be treated with the wrath they deserve. ~ Anton Szandor LaVey

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign. ~ John James Ingalls

The devil will try to stop you on your path to success, He can do this through doubts and fear ~ Sunday Adelaja

You ever get the feeling the world's filling up with bastards? I do. What I want to know is what happens when all the bastards run out of people to crap on? What happens when all that's left in the world is bastards? ... The golden rule. Screw unto others before they screw unto you. ~ William Hoffman

You'd be teary, too, yes you would be," he said, "if a girl and her bed had crashed into your head. ~ Renata Bowers

This is the sum of duty. Do not unto others that which would cause you pain if done to you. ~ Mahabharata 5 1517 From The Vedic Tradition Of India Circa 3000 BC

If you teach your children nothing else, teach them the Golden Rule and righty-tighty, lefty-loosey. ~ Robert Breault

Mother told me always to follow the golden rule.And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel.So remember if you're untrueAngels up in heaven are looking at you. ~ Hal David

Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought. ~ Augustine Of Hippo

My golden rule has always been to look on the bright side, no matter what. With all the complications in my life, I had to. Because if you can find three good things in any given situation, no matter how dire, I guarantee you'll forget the rotten stuff. ~ Hester Browne

One of my hobbies is discovering Universal laws. Here's one: if you light a cigarette, the bus always comes immediately. I have tested this theory many years, its a golden rule. If you light the cigarette, the bus ALWAYS comes. ~ Martijn Benders