Highest Quotes

The second-highest honor is playing for your country, and the highest honor is wearing the armband for your country. It shows that the players have confidence in me, and that feels good.

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

The highest kind of man is the one who does before talking and practices what he professes.

In the crowd of a million people I'll find my valentine, and then I'll climb the highest steeple and tell the world he's mine.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

The true nature of anything is what it becomes at its highest.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.

I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.

Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.

I believe that our deepest pain is often the path to our highest purpose.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.

God's highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His

War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the highest possible honor we can offer before God.

When a man makes a woman his wife it's the highest compliment he can pay her – and usually it's the last.

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood and obeyed.

Good fortune leads one to the highest glory, But to renounce it calls for equal courage.

The highest and greatest goal that every soul has to reach is God. As everything needs renunciation, that highest goal needs the highest renunciation.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us.

...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

Free market capitalism has done more for the soul of the human race than any other system. And it's created the highest standard of living.

When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority.

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

I'm probably the highest paid outdoor entertainer since Cleopatra.

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.

It is the mission of all art to express the highest and most beautiful ideals of man.

We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species anywhere in the world, they're important.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors.

The highest level of achievement is attained by the teams with the best conditioned players

The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.

The real poetry and beauty in life comes from an intense relationship with reality in all its aspects. Realism is in fact the ideal we must aspire to, the highest point of human rationality.

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.