Top 44 Golden Rule Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Golden Rule Quotes from famous people such as Emil Cioran, Karen Armstrong, William Wilberforce, Joe Wicks, Ron Paul, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
Emil Cioran
The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
Karen Armstrong
Let everyone regulate his conduct… by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
William Wilberforce
A golden rule? Do not come food shopping when you’re starving hungry and craving stuff. You’ll fill your basket with all the naughty things you probably wouldn’t eat.
Joe Wicks
Maybe we ought to consider a Golden Rule in foreign policy: Don’t do to other nations what we don’t want happening to us. We endlessly bomb these countries and then we wonder why they get upset with us?
Ron Paul
My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, ‘If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn’t be the problems that there are.’ In other words, ‘treat people the way you want to be treated.’ If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won’t make a right.
Monte Irvin
My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don’t keep score.
Harvey Mackay
The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that’s all I care about.
Rob Reiner
After I got back my career and my artistic freedom in 1982, my golden rule is the music must never suffer.
Chris Rea
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
James Cash Penney
The Republican Party needs to be very, very careful that it maintains the Golden Rule in its rhetoric regarding immigration policy.
Sonny Perdue
I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.
Mr. T
I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.
Dean Cain
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It’s not just what do you for yourself. It’s how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn’t big anything better than the golden rule. It’s in every major religion in one language or another.
Art Linkletter
The most important guideline when it comes to argument is the golden rule. If someone were addressing your point, what tone, what overall approach would you find persuasive and want her to use? Whatever that is, do it yourself.
Barry Eisler
Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
Douglas Brinkley
Once the Supreme Court in 1973 decided that infanticide could be legal, it not only ended America’s ‘inalienable right to life,’ it threw the Golden Rule right off the shores of this continent.
Michael Moriarty
I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it.
Loretta Young
Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.
Ellen DeGeneres
To me, it’s about the Golden Rule, really at the end of the day. Treating people as you want to be treated. I just don’t feel like it’s that hard to do. It’s not that much to ask of someone to treat everyone with the respect they would want to be treated with. No matter what you look like or where you’re from.
Chase Elliott
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
Orison Swett Marden
The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.
David Josiah Brewer
Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.
Ian Hacking
In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.
Hillary Clinton
The golden rule for playing the bass is that’s it all about feel, not just plonking away. You need to feel the sound, not using a pick or a plectrum – which has meant plenty of calluses on my fingers.
Suzi Quatro
I’m raising three children. I’m teaching my kids what it means, the Golden Rule, to treat people like you want to be treated.
Andrew Gillum
And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies – we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.
Adam Schiff
At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason – do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we’d be OK, as long as a masochist wasn’t in charge of people.
Chad Kroeger
The Golden Rule is to ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ Allegedly, America is a Christian country. This means that Christian America is following Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in a masochistic way.
Paul Craig Roberts
I realized that that Golden Rule does not exist online. You are not held to that same standard as when there is a teacher in the room or someone monitoring behavior.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
Alan Alda
Well, I think the golden rule I can think of is the fac

Well, I think the golden rule I can think of is the fact that you must follow your passion and do something that’s close to your heart. And I think that that’s very important, well, to be successful and to be happy.
Kumar Mangalam Birla
The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
Louise Hart
The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business.
James Cash Penney
Know what you want to achieve prior to starting to negotiate. It’s the golden rule but the one most people fail to heed. Without a plan, you allow the opposing party to define your goals instead of the other way around.
Ivanka Trump
My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: ‘Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.’
Tony Oller
I abhor discrimination. The way I was raised was like most Hoosiers, with the golden rule, that you should do unto others what you’d have them do unto you.
Mike Pence
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can’t do that to best of your ability.
Steven Adler
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
Edwin Markham
We live by the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Jane O’Meara Sanders
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim ‘never say never’ is one of the most important in ethics.
Julian Baggini
In our digital age, the Golden Rule is not enforced online.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
I don’t believe in the war god of the Israelites. He’s a bogeyman. Jesus preached the golden rule, by and large.
Terry Pratchett