Welcome to the Rules Quotes page, where you’ll find a collection of insightful and thought-provoking quotes about rules and regulations. Rules are an essential part of our society, governing everything from our daily lives to the functioning of organizations and institutions. They provide structure, order, and guidance, shaping our behavior and interactions with one another. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, guidance, or simply a new perspective on the role of rules in your life, you’ve come to the right place.
Below, you’ll discover a curated selection of quotes that explore the nuances and significance of rules. These quotes can be a source of inspiration, a way to reflect on the rules that govern your world, or even a creative tool to enhance your visual content. Feel free to copy them, place them on an image, or experiment with stylish fonts to give them a unique touch. Let these quotes serve as a reminder of the importance of rules in our lives and how they shape the way we navigate our complex world. Enjoy exploring this collection, and may it inspire you to ponder the role of rules in your own journey.
Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it. Alessandro Michele
People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten – they look great, but they’re not as memorable. Dita Von Teese
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. Jacques Derrida
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It’s about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it’s about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. Tom Peters
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance. Hannah Arendt
Imagination rules the world. Napoleon Bonaparte
If you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now. Bob Marley
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. Thomas Huxley
There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances. Leon Trotsky
If I’d observed all the rules, I’d never have got anywhere. Marilyn Monroe
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other ‘gentleman’ stuff is a chess game, especially these days. Anna Kendrick
I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all. Tecumseh
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
There are no rules when it comes to love. Taylor Swift
Children should have enough freedom to be themselves – once they’ve learned the rules. Anna Quindlen
The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways. Thomas Bangalter
Existence precedes and rules essence. Jean-Paul Sartre
Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something. Thomas A. Edison
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are. Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart – never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening. Henry Van Dyke
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Walter Scott
If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world. Vinoba Bhave
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire – but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master. David Josiah Brewer
I’ve only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It’s the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something. Colonel Sanders
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That’s the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system. Martin Luther King, Jr.
It’s not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. T. S. Eliot
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The ‘Road Rules’ thing was just something that happened. It was never like when I was little I said, ‘I want to be on a reality show when I grow up.’ They didn’t even have them then, you know? Theo Von
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. Joseph Campbell
We play a game called, ‘Peru ball,’ it’s a game we invented in Peru. The rules are so simple. You play with a football and one team’s going one direction, the other team’s going the other direction. Get the ball across the line, the length of a soccer goal. That’s it, that’s the only rules. Jim Harbaugh
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. Jean Kerr
You can be a Christian. You can be Jew. You can be a Muslim. You can be atheist. This is your own choice. But the law, the constitution, the law of the people is above God’s law. So when somebody arrives in Europe, people need to accept those rules. Charles Michel
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. David Hume
There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs. Ansel Adams
We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square. Michelle Obama
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game – and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. Jacques Barzun
I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us. Bad Bunny
I have been committed to carrying out my duties… in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct. Samuel Alito
You are remembered for the rules you break. Douglas MacArthur
There are three rules for being in the Paper Route Illuminati. Rule number one: get the money first. Rule number two: don’t forget to get the money. How do you make that money? You can’t make money without making sacrifices. Young Dolph
Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable. Sergio Mattarella
Religion is very important to me. I respect the rules of Islam, and I pray five times a day, always. Sadio Mane
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life. Billie Jean King
Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules. Mary Oliver
Rules are made for people who aren’t willing to make up their own. Chuck Yeager
Freedom without rules doesn’t work. And communities do not work unless they are regulated by etiquette. Judith Martin
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment. Garry Kasparov
It’s a new era in fashion – there are no rules. It’s all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together. Alexander McQueen
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. Joseph Brodsky
Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference. Carl von Clausewitz
Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything. Thales
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. George Orwell
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break. John Madden
Politics is a dirty game. We have our rules in boxing. In politics, no rules. Especially a young democracy like Ukraine. It’s more like MMA. Vitali Klitschko
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. Gilbert K. Chesterton
The thing about using other people’s money is they’re going to set the rules. Tyler Perry
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. Virginia Satir
In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero’s not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He’s one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. Marilyn Manson
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. Lou Holtz
The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena. Bear Grylls
Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them. Anthony de Mello
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk. Edward Weston
No rules. Don’t be afraid to do whatever you want. Cooking doesn’t have to have rules. I don’t like it that way. Masaharu Morimoto
Competition, by itself, always leads to cheating by the powerful, who try to establish pyramids of power, like feudalism. Yet, competition is the great creative force! So how do we save it from its own contradictions? By cooperation! By cooperating with each other, via politics, to make rules and prevent cheating, so that competition can thrive! David Brin
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. Robert A. Heinlein
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. Carl Jung
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. Thomas Sowell
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment. Caroline Knapp
If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything. Arnold Schwarzenegger
It is one thing to think gold has some marvelous store of value because man has no way of inventing more gold or getting it very easily, so it has the advantage of rarity. Believe me, man is capable of somehow creating more bitcoin… They tell you there are rules and they can’t do it. Don’t believe them. Charlie Munger
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. George Bernard Shaw
We know that we cannot live together without rules which tell us what is right and what is wrong, what is permitted and what is prohibited. We know that it is law which enables men to live together, that creates order out of chaos. We know that law is the glue that holds civilization together. Robert Kennedy
The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There’s something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other. Del Close
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. John Milton
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. Katharine Hepburn
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. Unknown
Rules and models destroy genius and art. William Hazlitt
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game. Bill Shankly
I am an undisputed gangster. To me, that means playing by my own rules. Katherine Ryan
You can’t break the rules until you know how to play the game. Rickie Lee Jones
I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don’t criticize a teammate. Never be late. John Wooden
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules – politics has no rules. Ross Perot
Corporate governance should be done more through principles than rules. Adi Godrej
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you’re playing by somebody else’s rules, while quietly playing by your own. Michael Korda
A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don’t apply in the City than they do for you and me. Emily Thornberry
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham
Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all. Virgil
Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. Claude Debussy
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. Bob Dylan
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. Tom Robbins
People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you’re lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life. Carrie-Anne Moss
Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness. Otto von Bismarck
It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules. Steven Wright
I’m not too into the trends – I like to look at trends as suggestions, not as rules. Bethany Mota
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once. Ken Venturi
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still. Thomas Moore
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies. Jim Morrison
Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones adhered to by common people. Michael Shellenberger
Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act. B. R. Ambedkar
We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics. Richard P. Feynman
