Highest Quotes

Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.

It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom.

I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.

The highest priority you can have is education.

Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure.

Religion is the highest vanity.

To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.

Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .

One of the very hallmarks of our nation is the ideal of E Pluribus Unum. It is a concept that richly flows from the highest ideals of our nation.

I'm one of the highest-paid television people in the world. I feel like I've made a difference in my viewers' lives, that I've been influential.

It doesn't count if your swing is going the highest if you're getting pushed.

Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

The people who need to overcome temptation to the highest degree have the hardest time doing it.

Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

Always have the highest bar for yourself.

A literary achievement of the highest order.

You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.

Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.

If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.

Being on the air is and probably always will be the highest point for me.

Compassion is one of the highest states of consciousness that you can choose to assist you in times of enormous pain.

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

I want to offer the possibility that Jesus was truly, as he proclaimed, a savior. Not the savior, not the one and only Son of God. Rather Jesus embodied the highest level of enlightenment.

Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.

The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe.

It's curious how many people are ready to believe that the highest prices guarantee the best value.

We're right now the highest-taxed nation in the world.

[Melania Trump] was always the highest quality that you'll ever find and the things they say, I've known her for a long time.

America is one of the highest tax nations in the world. Reducing taxes will cause new companies and new jobs to come roaring back into our country. Believe me, it'll happen and it'll happen fast.

By eliminating the tax breaks and special interest loopholes that primarily benefit the wealthy, our framework ensures that the benefits of tax reform go to the middle class, not the highest earners.

We're the highest taxed nation in the world. When I finish the plan, we'll be among the lower taxed, which is very good. I'd like to be the lowest, but you can't be the lowest.

There you see Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson closing a deal with [Vladimir] Putin in 2011. Two years later, he received one of Russia's highest civilian honors, the Order of Friendship.

I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall.

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.

I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing states and swing districts around the country.

I want to make my mark in the NFL. This is the highest level, and this is where it goes down in history.

But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.

The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.

Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.

Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs.

A Christian is the highest style of man.

I feel very close to French culture and to the French humanism, which occasionally one finds, even in the highest places. And therefore, all of my books have been written in French.

Preventing terrorist attacks is of the highest important, but trashing the Constitution is not the right way to do it.