Top 100 Quotes About Surest
#1. The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.
Benjamin Hoff
#2. Enforced Christianity was the surest breeding ground for unbelief. Many men either became unbelievers or met unbelievers during their military service.
Bill Cooke
#3. The surest way to corrupt a youth? Teach him to value thinking alike more than thinking differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#4. Reading is, with friendship, one of the surest contributions to the work of grieving. It helps us, more generally, to grieve for the limitations of our life, the limitations of the human condition.
Didier Anzieu
#5. One has only to follow events, and you will be all right. The surest way is to take whatever comes as it comes.
Jules Verne
#6. Making an issue of a little thing is one of the surest ways to spoil happiness.
Myrtle Reed
#7. We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George Washington
#8. Morning exercise, walking in the free, invigorating air of heaven, or cultivating flowers, small fruits, and vegetables, is the surest safeguard against colds, coughs, congestion of the brain, inflammation of the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs, and a hundred other diseases.
Ellen G. White
#9. The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#10. It was strange the paths the human heart chose to take and the attachments it made along the way. The surest sign of the altruistic nature of the organ is its ability to ignore race, color, creed, and gender and just blindly love with all its might - one of the most irrefutable forces on earth. They
Craig Johnson
#11. The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
N. T. Wright
#12. The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time
Leo Kennedy
#13. Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.
Barton Gellman
#15. While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.
George Washington
#16. The surest way for those who want to rule
is praising moderation, talking of peace and quiet.
Seneca.
#17. The surest way to wake up and smell the roses every day is to go to sleep face down in the flower bed.
Argus Hamilton
#18. The ability to admit that you do not know is the surest indication of your enduring strength
Kirsten Beyer
#19. If you want to know when a war might be coming, you just watch the U.S. and see when it starts cutting down on its defenses. It's the surest barometer in the world.
Will Rogers
#20. Lucidity of speech is unquestionably one of the surest tests of mental precision ... In my experience a confused talker is never a clear thinker.
David Lloyd George
#21. The surest mark of true conversion is humility.
J.C. Ryle
#22. Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and yet leave something always in suspense, is to establish the surest hold that can be had, in wrong, on the unthinking portion of mankind.
Charles Dickens
#23. Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.
Benjamin Franklin
#24. Be the exception to the rule. It's the surest way to become exceptional.
Ron Kaufman
#25. Let her [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.
John Milton
#26. Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
Dick Wolf
#27. the best-bred dogs belong in the surest hands.
Amor Towles
#28. The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.
Melody Beattie
#29. Sometimes I think that the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - BILL WATTERSON
Michio Kaku
#30. Getting lost in a good book affords the surest means of improving one's mind as well as fueling one's imagination with a sense of adventure. All the better if said book should happen to be of a romantic bent.
P.O. Dixon
#31. There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
Georges Pompidou
#33. It might stand as the surest marker of the difference between childhood and age: A month was once forever, and now it's just a month. Or less. One
Joseph Bottum
#34. Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie
#35. The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Tom Wolfe
#36. Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy ... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
Harold S. Kushner
#37. The surest way to lose democracy is to take it for granted. Every citizen must contribute to its advancement in some way. No nation or culture can long survive the absence of transcendent values and absolutes.
Carl F. H. Henry
#38. If honesty did not exist, it would have to be invented, as it is the surest way of getting rich.
Earl Nightingale
#39. The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
Hannah Arendt
#40. All the truly great stand-ups say, 'I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work.' To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.
Patton Oswalt
#41. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted ... Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#43. The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.
Tom Krause
#44. Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But often faltering feet Come surest to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet The sunrise of the soul.
Henry Van Dyke
#45. The old adage was true; the surest proof of the Faith is that it has survived for two thousand years....in spite of the men that run it.
Val Bianco
#46. The surest way to damage society is to call for a "great man" to lead it. The surest way to improve society is to become a great man to lead oneself and convince others to do likewise.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#47. It suggests that one can choose one's course by an effort of will. And it suggests that reason is the surest guide. Why should its dictates be any better than those of passion? They're different, that's all.
W. Somerset Maugham
#48. The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
Dorothy Corkille Briggs
#49. Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.
Thomas Jefferson
#50. Probabilities - the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.
George Eliot
#52. Never express anger with a friend or a subordinate in public," Vedris always said. "They might forgive a private expression of anger or a deserved scolding, but they never forget a public humiliation. It is the surest way to destroy a friendship and to create enemies.
Tamora Pierce
#53. Parents do not owe their progeny an inheritance no matter how much money they have. One of the surest ways to produce loafers and freeloaders is to let children know that their future is assured.
Ann Landers
#54. There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain
#55. Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
John Tillotson
#56. It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace.
Joseph Story
#57. Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?
Michel De Montaigne
#58. The surest way to profits is to control the ones that provide them.
Tom Althouse
#59. Among the many things that religious tradition holds in store for us is a legacy of wonder. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. Modern
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#60. Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.
Oprah Winfrey
#61. Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.
Charles Tennyson Turner
#62. The surest way to get a VC interested is to say that you're not interested in taking VC money.
Chris Yeh
#63. One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
#64. Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.
George Edward Woodberry
#65. This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#66. Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise
Pope Pius X
#68. Yet they enjoy the high. In the surest sign that selenium actually makes them go mad, cattle grow addicted to locoweed despite its awful side effects and eat it to the exclusion of anything else. It's animal meth.
Sam Kean
#69. The surest way to heal an eco-system is to connect it to more of itself.
William McDonough
#70. For the male sickness of self-contempt, the surest cure is to be loved by a clever woman
Friedrich Nietzsche
#72. To pursue happiness for its own sake is the surest way to lose it.
George Roche
#73. Of all the reports that fly about the world, ill news is the surest of all to arrive!
Ellis Peters
#74. But the surest way to slow your own progress is to rush yourself into situation you're not ready for.
Marie Lu
#75. The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#76. The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.
Giacomo Leopardi
#77. A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Arthur Helps
#78. Said Slytherin, "We'll teach just those whose ancestry is purest."
Said Ravenclaw, "We'll teach those whose intelligence is surest."
Said Gryffindor, "We'll teach those with brave deeds to their name."
Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot, and treat them just the same.
J.K. Rowling
#79. Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.
William Penn
#80. The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
Andre Gide
#81. People always hurt us with their trust, Karla said to me once. The surest way to hurt someone you like, is to put all your trust in him.
Gregory David Roberts
#82. My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.
Mark Twain
#83. Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Thomas S. Monson
#84. The surest way to change the world you see is to change the way you look at it!
Denis Gorce-Bourge
#85. One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
C.L.R. James
#86. Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#87. Somebody once said, educate a woman and you will educate a family. I am saying, empower a woman to become an entrepreneur, and you will create an entire family of entrepreneurs. Woman entrepreneurship is the need of the nation right now. It's the surest and quickest way to make India a superpower.
Vishwas Mudagal
#89. There are no men more careful of the use of means than those that are surest of a good issue and conclusion, for the one stirs up diligence in the other. Assurance of the end stirs up diligence in the means. For the soul of a believing Christian knows that God has decreed both.
Richard Sibbes
#92. I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.
Thomas Browne
#93. The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
Henry L. Stimson
#94. The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.
Flannery O'Connor
#96. Adam went to bed comforted, having woven for himself an ingenious web of probabilities - the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth. His
George Eliot
#97. It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism ...
Aung San Suu Kyi
#98. Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.
Ken Robinson
#99. The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.
Ellen Glasgow
