Definition of Precept

Precept Quotations

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
James Russell Lowell

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes

A good example is far better than a good precept.
Dwight L. Moody

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Example is the best precept.
Aesop

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.
Edith Stein

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
Hannah Arendt

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Denis Diderot