Highest Quotes - Page 29

• All who act upon their highest motivations become a power for good. Know that every right thing you do - every good word you say - every positive thought you think - has a good effect.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Motivation, Thinking, Positive Thoughts

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.91, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• It takes quite a while for the living to catch up with the believing, but of course it can. As we live up to the highest light we have, more light is given.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Believe, Light, Given

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• If you did not face problems you would just drift through life. It is through solving problems in accordance with the highest light we have that inner growth is attained.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Light, Growth, Faces

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.10, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happy, Character, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2447, Delphi Classics

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• At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.

  Herbert Croly

  Women, Motherhood, Wife

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• In the garden of literature, the highest and the most charismatic flowers are always the quotations.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Flower, Garden, Literature

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• Realise well, proud little man that even the highest clouds don't shine! For above all things there lie brightest stars.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stars, Lying, Men

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• You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Heart, Goal

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2015). “Thus Spake Zarathustra”, p.36, Booklassic

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• It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.

  Hubert Van Zeller

  Religious, People, Devil

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• Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Simple, Men, Thinking

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.341, Delphi Classics

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• Propaganda must not concern itself with what is best in man - the highest goals humanity sets for itself, its noblest and most precious feelings. Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve. It must therefore utilize the most common feelings, the most widespread ideas, the crudest patterns, and in so doing place itself on a very low level with regard to what it wants man to do and to what end. Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.

  Jacques Ellul

  Hate, Pride, Men

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• To be united with Me in total dedication to My highest will protects the soul from forces of destruction. There is no safety in external circumstances. The only shield for the spirit of man is My presence. It is written, "The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them."

  Frances J Roberts

  Angel, Men, Dedication

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• The highest reward for our toil is not what we get for it but what we become by it. ... Mistakes are not failures. They are proof that we are making an effort. When we understand that, we can more easily move out of our comfort zone, try something new, and improve. ... Improvement demands a commitment to grow long after the mood in which it was made has passed.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mistake, Moving, Commitment

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• I think, apart from Sir Garfield Sobers nobody else has played 20 years in international cricket and 20 years playing at the very highest level and to the very highest standard is an achievement beyond compare.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Thinking, Years, Achievement

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• The highest nobility lies in taming your own mind.

  Atisa

  Lying, Mind, Taming

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• The highest art is where has been most perfectly breathed the sentiment of humanity...Some persons suppose that landscape has no power of communicating human sentiment. But this is a great mistake. The civilized landscape peculiarly can: and therefore I love it more and think it more worthy of reproduction than that which is savage and untamed. It is more significant. Every act of man, every thing of labor, effort, suffering, want, anxiety, necessity, love, marks itself wherever it has been.

  George Inness

  Art, Mistake, Men

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• There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives.

  Douglas Alexander

  Years, Employment, Levels

  House of Commons debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. June 6, 2006.

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• The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.

  William Barclay

  Christian, Men, Perfect

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• Every child has a right to know how to achieve control of his body in order that he may use it to the limit of his ability for the expression of his own reactions to life. Even if he can never carry his efforts far enough to realize dance in its highest forms, he may experience the sheer joy of the rhythmic sense of free, controlled, and expressive movement, and through this know an addition to life to which every human being is entitled.

  Margaret H'Doubler

  Children, Expression, Order

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• The history in our country speaks to our highest values of people who did not accept things as they are and go along with them. They resisted, they refused to accept the world as it is, they demanded it to be a better reflection of their highest dreams and highest aspirations.

  Cory Booker

  Dream, Country, Reflection

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• The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is his adventure and never-ending delight. It is complaisant and elusive but never dull. It is wonderful both in the small and in the large. In short, its exploration is the highest occupation for a gentleman.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Adventure, Gentleman, Dull

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1970). “Science: the center of culture”

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• I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Spring, Winning, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (1904). “The Roosevelt Book: Selections from the Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• [Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Sublime, Development

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Greg Whitlock (2001). “The Pre-Platonic Philosophers”, p.55, University of Illinois Press

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• [Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and verification; and it affords a boundless scope for the exercise of the highest efforts of imagination and invention.

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Exercise, Imagination, Effort

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• The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

  Seneca the Younger

  Deeds And Words, Proof, Should

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