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Maxims Quotes - Page 2

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, know thyself, but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Successful, Self, Maxims

Cecil's dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, "The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

Samuel Smiles
Business, Way, Maxims
'Self-Help' (1859) ch. 9

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Behavior, Court, Maxims
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.97, Harvard University Press

Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

Quintilian
Friendship, Jest, Maxims

Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.

Mason Cooley
Done, Feels, Maxims

Remember my unalterable maxim, "When we love, we always have something to say.

Mary Wortley Montagu
Remember, Maxims

The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim

Larry Niven
Maxims, Values

If I have lived by any maxim as a reporter, it was that every person is an expert on the circumstances of his life.

Joseph Lelyveld
Experts, Circumstances, Maxims

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.

Hilaire Belloc
Gun, Whatever Happens, Maxims
Modern Traveller (1898) pt. 6

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.

Henry Fielding
Trust, Maxims, Persons
Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1783). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. In Twelve Volumes. A New Edition. To which is Now First Added, The Fathers; Or, The Good-natured Man”, p.332

The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.

Elizabeth Janeway
Powerful, Guides, Maxims
Elizabeth Janeway (1981). “Powers of the weak”, William Morrow & Co

I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that.

Cheyenne Kimball
Artist, Lows, Maxims

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