Highest Quotes
What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.
The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.
You can rest assured that if you devote your time and attention to the highest advantage of others, the Universe will support you, always and only in the nick of time.
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.
Love, consciousness, and creativity are the highest refinements of the cosmic evolutionary force.
This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.
The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.
The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.
To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.
Love is like a roller coaster. It can take you to the highest, most spectacular heights or drop you to bottom in seconds. However, even with the risks, love is undoubtedly worth it in the end.
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.
A gifted teacher has an unfailing eye for magical classrooms & loses sleep over anything less than the highest quality.
To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.
Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.
Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
Enthusiasm is by far the highest paid quality on earth, probably because it is one of the rarest; yet it is one of the most contagious.
There is no such thing as business ethics. There is only one kind -- you have to adhere to the highest standards.
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.
You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.
They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all".
The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.
I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can take me to the highest heights, it's almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.
According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.
Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.
No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.
Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.
True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.