Highest Quotes - Page 8

• Because a woman brought death a bright Maiden overcame it, and so the highest blessing in all of creation lies in the form of a woman, since God has become man in a sweet and blessed Virgin.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Sweet, Women, Lying

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• It is a union with a Higher Good by love, that alone is endless perfection. The only sufficient object for man must be something that adds to and perfects his nature, to which he must be united in love; somewhat higher than himself, yea, the highest of all, the Father of spirits. That alone completes a spirit and blesses it, - to love Him, the spring of spirits.

  Robert B. Leighton

  Father, Spring, Men

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• The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

  Charles Rollin

  Greatness, Tree, Reason

  Charles Rollin (1851). “The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians”, p.285

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• The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.

  Jules Breton

  Beauty, Art, Common

  Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

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• Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.

  David Graham Phillips

  Fighting, Honor, Lawyer

  David Graham Phillips (1905). “The Deluge”

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• Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Spiritual, Yoga, Exercise

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• Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.

  George Polya

  Thinking, Expression, Achievement

  George Pólya (1945). “How to Solve it: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method”

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• The greatest problem before engineers and managers today is the economical utilization of labor . The limiting of output by the workman, and the limiting by the employer of the amount a workman is allowed to earn, are both factors which militate against that harmonious co-operation of employer and employee which is essential to their highest common good.

  Henry Gantt

  Essentials, Today, Common

  Henry Laurence Gantt (1961). “Gantt on Management: Guidelines for Today's Executive”

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• But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hero, Soul, Hope And Love

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.101, Penguin

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• ...evolution is the gradual development and stratification of progressive series of wholes, stretching from the inorganic beginnings to the highest level of spiritual creation.

  Jan Smuts

  Spiritual, Growth, Development

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• Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man. Her mission and throne is the family, and if anything is withheld that would make her more efficient, useful, or happy in that sphere, she is wronged, and has not her rights.

  John Todd

  Family, Women, Rights

  John Todd (1972). “Woman's Rights”, Arno Pr

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• [T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made at the canton (state) level. Swiss per capita income is the highest in the world, showing that non-aggression pays. How did the Swiss come to adopt a relatively non-aggressive constitution in an aggressive world? In the mid-1800s, they imitated our constitution and stuck with it!

  Mary Ruwart

  Government, People, Decision

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• It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the 'rock' bottom of the cosmos - the dense and crude earth. It remains imperfect until the moment of entombment for the simple reason that until that dark nadir is reached the experiential adventure of existence remains incomplete, and Self is not yet endowed with the entire spectrum of the light of consciousness - from spirit to matter - from the highest high to the lowest low.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Spiritual, Adventure, Dark

  Jason Augustus Newcomb, Lon Milo Duquette (2004). “The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power”, p.14, Weiser Books

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• Whether arrived at through reason or revelation, natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.

  Ilana Mercer

  Men, Law, Existential

  "Why The Land Belongs To Bundy". www.economicpolicyjournal.com. April 25, 2014.

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• I have dear friends in South Carolina, folks who made my life there wonderful and meaningful. Two of my children were born there. South Carolina's governor awarded me the highest award for the arts in the state. I was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. I have lived and worked among the folks in Sumter, South Carolina, for so many years. South Carolina has been home, and to be honest, it was easier for me to define myself as a South Carolinian than even as an American.

  Kwame Dawes

  Meaningful, Art, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Spiritual, Achievement, Development

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922). “Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.”

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• In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.

  Harvey Penick

  Golf, Player, Games

  Harvey Penick (2011). “Harvey Penick's Little Red Book: Lessons And Teachings From A Lifetime In Golf”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• You have deep within you the power to fulfill your highest vision of your life. To engage this power you must develop a solid personal relationship with yourself. By doing so, you'll tap into a wealth of inner strength that will allow you to take the necessary actions that build confidence and self-esteem. When you learn to stop hiding your power and use fear to your advantage, you'll become less attached to what others want for you and more attached to what you want for yourself. As this shift occurs, you'll naturally begin to lead a more authentic and passionate life.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Self Esteem, Inner Strength, Vision

  Cheryl Richardson (2003). “Stand Up for Your Life: A Practical Step-by-Step Plan to Build Inner Confidence and Personal Power”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government.

  Jonathan Yardley

  War, Ignorance, Government

  "David Halberstam". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.

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• People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Want, Mouths

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• God is the highest place within each and every one of us. It's our divine self.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self, Divine

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.washingtonpost.com. 2012.

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• There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.

  Nikola Tesla

  Men, Law, Study

  Thomas Commerford Martin, Nikola Tesla (1894). “The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla: With Special Reference to His Work in Polyphase Currents and High Potential Lighting”

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• If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love

  Amy Carmichael

  Names, Calvary, My Own

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.26, CLC Publications

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• Recognize your highest calling as early in life as possible. Proactively and creatively persist, day in and day out. Leave an enduring legacy.

  Frank McKinney

  Legacy, Calling, Endure

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• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Hero, Gay

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.290

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