Quotes About Highest

#1. We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Bryan Stevenson

#2. Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

Agnes Smedley

#3. We need to teach our people to speak what is right as the highest manifestation of morality

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Don't you realize I've already scaled the highest wall there is - getting you to love me?

Ryohgo Narita

#5. Love is the highest form of energy. It cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be transmuted.

Tapan Ghosh

#6. An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.

Andrea Bocelli

#7. We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.

Havelock Ellis

#8. If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

Sri Aurobindo

#9. We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with the highest that is within us; for even if it is small in quantity, in power and preciousness, it far excels all the rest.

Aristotle.

#10. If optimism is the highest form of courage
as I am beginning to believe it is
then these students are all heroes.

Paula Huntley

#11. The man who recognizes the truth of any human relation and neglects the duty involved is not a true man.... A man may be aware of the highest truths of many things, and yet not be a true man, inasmuch as the essentials of manhood are not his aim: he has not come into the flower of his own being.

George MacDonald

#12. The highest of all is not to understand the highest but to act upon it.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

David Hume

#14. The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

Laozi

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

Richard Paul Evans

#16. Give the best you have to the highest you know ... and do it now.

Ralph Washington Sockman

#17. I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

Dennis Lehane

#18. The foundation of self-confidence, the basis of boldness and self-assertion, is a deep inner trust, based on living a life of perfect integrity, and disciplining yourself to live consistent with your highest values in every situation.

Brian Tracy

#19. Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

James Freeman Clarke

#20. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American.

Edward Snowden

#21. Are you the dove or the statue?
Soaring with the eagles leaving the turkeys behind.
May our highest Supreme Being be with you and give you lots of Real Love and Happiness in your life.

Harry Monarch

#22. Samuel Eto'o is reputedly the highest-paid player in the world at £350,000 per week - that's £5,000 a day

Clive Tyldesley

#23. The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. 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.

Alyson Noel

#25. The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

Robert E. Ornstein

#26. I know reels can be expensive but even if you construct one on your own if you don't have enough money to get a more professional one while you're getting started, as far as college animators go or young indie developers I don't think they are going to care if you have the highest quality reel yet.

Ashly Burch

#27. In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.

James Henry Breasted

#28. These of us who have risen highest merely have a deeper awareness of how uncertain and empty everything is.

Pessoa, Fernando

#29. The training area was set up where the tournament would actually be held, since putting together two structures to serve the same purpose would be at the level of idiotic redundancy reserved for the highest halls of government.

Drew Hayes

#30. Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal.

Brian Tracy

#31. So if you are writing a story where love is the meaning, where love is the highest and best of all, where love is the point, then you have to allow each person a choice.

John Eldredge

#32. The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.

Helen Keller

#33. God is waiting to be put to the test by His people in prayer. He delights in being put to the test on His promises. It is His highest pleasure to answer prayer, to prove the reliability of His promises.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#34. I think there is no work of art which represents the spirit of a nation more surely than "Die Meister Singer" of Richard Wagner. Here is no plaything with local colour, but the raising to its highest power all that is best in the national consciousness of his country.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#35. We do not need to explain how the Aryans entered and settled in the Dravidian country, and subjugated and oppressed the Dravidians. Nor do we need to explain how before the Aryans entered the Dravidian country, the Dravidian country had a civilization and arts of the highest rank.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#36. The people "placed me in an office of the highest dignity and charged me with the duty of maintaining that dignity and proper respect for the office on the part of my subordinates. . . . By your own conduct you have destroyed your usefulness as a helpful subordinate.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#37. If you use a standard called "biological value" to rate protein sources ... soy finishes far below eggs, milk, fish, beef and chicken. The food with the highest biological value ever measured is whey protein ...

Lou Schuler

#38. The traitor of other races is generally confined to the mediocre or irresponsible individual, but, unfortunately, the traitors among the Negro race are generally to be found among the men with the highest place in education and society, the fellows who call themselves leaders.

Marcus Garvey

#39. You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.

Neale Donald Walsch

#40. I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy.

Tom Bissell

#41. The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

Thomas Love Peacock

#42. The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It's important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people's love even when they're not there in front of you.

Laurie Helgoe

#43. No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last advances towards precision require a greater devotion of time, labour, and expense, than those which precede them.

Charles Babbage

#44. As Far As People Who Ran The Show, It Was The Highest Levels of NATO, the U.S., MI6, CIA And The Pentagon

Sibel Edmonds

#45. You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman
a devil!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#46. You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating your God. This is the most disgusting dogma of Christian religion, the greatest insult to the Highest Being, the climax of madness and insanity.

Frederick The Great

#47. Until we align our minds with our souls,
we will continue to grieve for our highest selves as individuals, a society, and as a world family.

Leta B.

#48. Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Napoleon Hill

#49. Esther Rantzen, like me, is an egomaniac of the highest order.

Janet Street-Porter

#50. Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

Chaim Weizmann

#51. The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.

Bruce Lee

#52. It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

Mahatma Gandhi

#53. Feeling at home with ourselves and being able to create a spirit of place that nourishes us physically, emotionally and spiritually is a goal worthy of our highest priority.

Alexandra Stoddard

#54. I've done about 15 movies and four television series in Mexico. My last two movies were the highest grossing in Mexican-cinema history - 'Nosotros los Nobles' and 'Instructions Not Included.'

Karla Souza

#55. The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.

Barbara Mikulski

#56. Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

Isaac Barrow

#57. There is nothing to fear. There is no such thing as death. Death has nothing to do with us. But you said something about being talented
that it makes one different. Now, that does have something to do with us. And talent in the highest and broadest sense means talent for life.

Boris Pasternak

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

G.I. Gurdjieff

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

D.H. Lawrence

#60. The truth is, our corporate income taxes are some of the highest in the world, and frankly, in my judgment it's unpatriotic if you're not for reducing the corporate income tax. We want to make it so American companies are on a more level playing field competing with companies around the world.

Jim Jordan

#61. You don't have to search so hard for meaning and destiny. If you focus on keeping yourself clear and in balance and you live from your heart, destiny and your highest-good path will unfold naturally at your feet.

Melody Beattie

#62. If the church were the goal, then sustaining that church would logically be the priority of the highest order. But if the Kingdom of God was the goal, then the Kingdom-building instrument would gladly self-sacrifice for the eternal prize.

Jeff Christopherson

#63. If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.

Plato

#64. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

Harvey S. Firestone

#65. I wanted to compete at the highest level again - and that's the NBA.

Larry Bird

#66. Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

Robert Breault

#67. It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination.

Tariq Ramadan

#68. As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.

Peace Pilgrim

#69. Real happiness comes from the cultivation, the development, of the highest that is in us.

Orison Swett Marden

#70. Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain.

George Eliot

#71. A study of Fortune 500 companies from research organization Catalyst found that those with the highest representation of women on their boards of directors performed significantly better than those with the lowest representation of women.

Anonymous

#72. One thing I found out then was that pity is a form of love and, actually, its highest expression.
A Tale of Two Sisters

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#73. Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Martin Luther

#74. Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.

Pope Francis

#75. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Howard Zinn

#76. Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to realize that the act is often a form of violence.

Fiona Paul

#77. I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

Suzanne Farrell

#78. At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.

Hugh Black

#79. Athletics at the highest level is a sport within a sport.

Lindsey Vonn

#80. The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.

Charles Fillmore

#81. I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#82. Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor.

Robert Benchley

#83. It's easy: You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail you'll find a throne; and whatever, or whoever, is on that throne is what's of highest value to you. On that throne is what you worship.

Louie Giglio

#84. Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land, ... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.

Henry David Thoreau

#85. 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.

W. A. Criswell

#86. You ever flown something before?" (Christopher)
"I hold the highest score at A.S.U. for Star Wars: Starfighter." (Kitty)
"I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I'm going to regret this." (Christopher)

Gini Koch

#87. Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an argument and a gripping storyline to someone's granny or eight-year-old takes the highest quality of your powers.

Simon Schama

#88. [Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#89. Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.

Rumi

#90. Love must always start free - but its goal is to become unfree. To be unable not to love is the highest form of freedom in love.

Gregory A. Boyd

#91. 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.

Bob Proctor

#92. Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.

Charles Sumner

#93. But the question we should ask ourselves is, who is the next visionary leader of America? How do we have the aspiration and inspire Americans to reach their highest level? We need a president that does so.

Tim Scott

#94. To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness

Robert Muller

#95. How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

John Brunner

#96. Every time someone started shouting about the supposed monopoly of the Circle, or the Circle's unfair monetization of the personal data of its users, or some other paranoid and demonstrably false claim, soon enough it was revealed that that person was a criminal or deviant of the highest order.

Dave Eggers

#97. When Jesus taught that the kingdom of heaven is within, he was pointing out a path to happiness of the highest order.

Deepak Chopra

#98. I belong to the highest class there is: I'm a third generation celebrity. My grandfather, father, and I have all been on the cover of Time. That's all there is. You can't go any higher in America.

Gore Vidal

#99. Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#100. Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

Joseph Alsop