Highest Quotes

The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.

Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Wise man is a good Sherpa; he takes you to the highest places!

Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

The word ‘no’ is a great time-saver. Say no to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time.

Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the best of what you have.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

I didn't quit drinking because I was a bad drunk. I quit because I was a spectacular drunk. It got to be like a video game, where you get to the highest level and it's not even a challenge any more.

To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.

Service is the highest form of prayer as far as I am concerned.

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.

Love is the greatest power and it is, if natural, the highest 'invisible food' from the infinite for soul and body.

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

This, in my judgment, is the highest philosophy: First, do not regret having lost yesterday; second, do not fear that you will lose tomorrow; third, enjoy today.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary.

Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.

The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.

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.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

You're always being led to your highest good, as long as you have the courage to listen.

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

Live according to your highest light and more light will be given.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

Kindness is the highest form of intelligence.

Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.

You are God's highest form of creation. You are a living breathing creative magnet. You have the ability to control what you attract into your life.

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.