Rules And Regulations Quotes

• Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Broken, Lazy, Laziness

  "MacArthur Close-Up". Book by William Addleman Ganoe, 1962.

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• Progress is not possible without discipline. A nation, institution, family or individual can advance only by heeding the words of those who deserve respect and by obeying the appropriate rules and regulations. Children, obedience is not weakness. Obedience with humility leads to discipline.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Humility, Discipline

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• Any society has to delegate the responsibility to maintain a certain kind of order. Enforcing regulations, making sure people stop at stoplights. We can’t function as a society without rules and regulations, and the enforcement mechanism of those rules and regulations.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Responsibility, Order, People

  "Across the Great Divide: A Conversation with Joseph Stiglitz". Interview with Charles Reinhardt, www.barnesandnoble.com. May 19, 2015.

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• Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.

  Dee Hock

  Educational, Stupid, Intelligent

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• Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Progress, Regulation

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• We've accommodated the new rules and regulations. We've served our clients and had quite good returns.

  Jamie Dimon

  Regulation, Return, Clients

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Don't try to impress God with your works" or "Don't attempt to please God with your merits" or "Don't try to keep the rules and regulations in order to earn your salvation." He looked around at nearly slumbering collections of utterly casual Christians and wondered, "Who's trying?

  Martin E. Marty

  Christian, Order, Trying

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• To insure peace of mind ignore the rules and regulations.

  George Ade

  Peace, Mind, Peace Of Mind

  George Ade (1901). “Forty Modern Fables”

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• There are reasons to have rules and regulations. That I understand. Authority is a different thing. Authority is to maintain its own position by increasing its power and domination over those people it is supposedly protecting.

  James Cromwell

  People, Regulation, Different

  "James Cromwell Talks STILL MINE, Playing a Lead Role, Questioning Authority, AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2013.

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• Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world.

  Graham Nash

  Hippie, Doors, Needs

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• When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.

  Billy Graham

  Joy, Our Love, Cold

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Life cannot be administered by definite rules and regulations; that wisdom to deal with a man's difficulties comes only through some knowledge of his life and habits as a whole.

  Jane Addams

  Men, Habit, Difficulty

  Jane Addams (2012). “Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Relaxation, Noble, Leisure

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• We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

  Gary Ackerman

  America, World, Empty

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• Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of modesty, moderation, compassion, and consideration (not just one society's rules and regulations), the wisdom of seeing things as they are (not of merely collecting "facts" about them), and the happiness of being in harmony with the Way (which has nothing to do with self-righteous "spiritual" obsessions and fanaticism). And you will live lightly, spontaneously, and effortlessly.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Compassion, Self

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• I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.

  Jack Abramoff

  Government, Roles, Libertarian

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• Some clubs want to win so much they'll do anything to get it. Our approach has been just the opposite. We've tried to do things the right way. And the right way is [abiding by] the rules and regulations ... I may not like all of them, but once they are [official], we play by them.

  Don Shula

  Basketball, Winning, Opposites

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• There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.

  Arnold Newman

  Photography, Perfect, Would Be

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• Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness, awareness. Don't live life according to the mind. Mind has rules and regulations, mind has rituals. Live life from the standpoint of no-mind so that you can bloom into unpredictable flowers.

  Rajneesh

  Live Life, Flower, Law

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• The bureaucrat is not free to aim at improvement. He is bound to obey rules and regulations established by a superior body. He has no right to embark upon innovations if his superiors do not approve of them. His duty and his virtue is to be obedient.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Innovation, Body, Improvement

  Ludwig Von Mises (1969). “Bureaucracy”, ICON Group International

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• If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Doe, Accepting

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• Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Letting Go, Differences, Expectations

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from May 25, 2016

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• Love never comes with a brochure of rules and regulations, a prospectus with guides of what is acceptable and what is abominable. It’s a standard to follow your heart, and that’s what I did and if doing that hurt you, then I’m sorry… sorry for coming in your life and wasting your time, for causing you an anguish so great that you could not bear the sight of me. Today, I am proud to stand up and honour myself and proclaim to the world… yes, I loved someone more than myself. I loved someone truly, madly, deeply!

  Faraaz Kazi

  Hurt, Sorry, Heart

  FaceBook post by Faraaz Kazi from Sep 16, 2012

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• Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mean, Regulation, Matter

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• Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

  Dee Hock

  People, Heaven, Principles

  Dee Hock (2005). “One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization”, p.162, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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