Highest Quotes

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, believed to have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, girls and women face increased peril on the road to safety.

I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.

Love is down to earth and it reaches to the highest star; it is the valey of humility and the mopuntaintop of ecstasy.

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.

The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation.

Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel's history, so clearly there's going to be a correlation.

For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.

All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.

If God is the Supreme good then our highest blessedness on earth must lie in knowing Him as perfectly as possible.

I think the ethical standards established in this White House have been the highest in the history of the White House.

Today I set my mind and heart on a new path. I focus my energy on love, appreciation, and my highest possibilities.

The spirit of love arranges all meetings in divine order for the highest good of all concerned.

We needs must love the highest when we see it.

It was my duty to have loved the highest; It surely was my profit had I known: It would have been my pleasure had I seen. We needs must love the highest when we see it, Not Lancelot, nor another.

Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.

For me, it's really important to be able to compete on the highest level.

ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.

Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties.

I wished that teachers were the highest paid people in Israel.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people.

Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.

Your highest female grace is silence.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

Never make your highest purpose, or the most important thing in your life something that is outside of your control.

Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?

But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.

The love of God has been described as the highest, noblest, strongest kind of love and the most joyous to the soul.

Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.

I do believe that, in time, doctors - both alternative and orthodox - will begin using whatever is the highest best treatment for their patients, regardless of the modality.

I enjoy my work. The reason I worked so hard all my life is because I want to be making big decisions and managing at the very highest level.

It's the nature of it. The players will want to compete at the highest level they possibly can.

Your children's genes reflect only their potential, not their destiny. It is up to you to provide the environment that allows them to develop to their highest potential.

The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment.

Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.

But our highest objective should be that our children would repent from their sins, put their trust in Jesus Christ, and reflect the gospel to the world around them.

I've said that movies are the highest stakes make-believe game in the world, and this is truly the most highest stakes.