(98 quotes found)
“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”
Wayne Dyer
“The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis”
Winston Churchill
“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better.”
William James
“I have always laid it down as a maxim /and found it justified by experience /that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex /but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.”
Lord Byron
“Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.”
Confucius
“That it is better that 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.”
Margaret Fuller
“I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is possible to develop and grow with joy rather than grief. However, when the pain comes my way, I try to get the most growth out of it.”
Alexa McLaughlin
“May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.”
Immanuel Kant
“In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner”
Richard John Neuhaus
