Top 100 Quotes About Surest
#1. The surest way of finding peace of mind is that which helps the greatest number of others to find it
Napoleon Hill
#2. One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
Pauline Kael
#3. Freedom of the press, the surest guaranty of the rights of man.
Sarah Vowell
#4. Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success.
Bryant McGill
#5. Personal experience is the surest method by which one can determine the truth of a supposition, no matter how reputable the reporter, since so many experiences are subject to individual proclivities.
Nick Offerman
#6. A casual attitude toward human hurt and pain is the surest sign of educational failure.
Norman Cousins
#7. Altruism is the surest and most effective way to bring about genuine life satisfaction.
Dalai Lama XIV
#9. The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.
Bill Mauldin
#10. Inside this new love, die. Your way begins on the other side ... . Die, and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. The speechless full moon comes out now. - RUMI
Tim Farrington
#11. The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.
Marjorie Benton Cooke
#12. Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.
Thomas Jefferson
#13. The surest way of ruining a youth is to teach him to respect those who think as he does more highly than those who think differently from him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#14. The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.
Henry David Thoreau
#15. The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.
William Strunk Jr.
#16. The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse to protect the weakest of all, lex et tutissima cassis.
Edward Coke
#17. Mathematics is the surest way to immortality. If you make a big discovery in mathematics, you will be remembered after everyone else will be forgotten
Paul Erdos
#18. The surest way to remain a winner is to win once, and then not play any more.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#19. The doctrine of the atonement is to my mind one of the surest proofs of the divine inspiration of Holy Scripture.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#20. It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#21. Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.
Ida Tarbell
#23. It is the surest test of genuine love, that it brings back our early simplicity to the worldliest of us.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#24. Refresh your commitment today to test everything by the Word of God. The surest defense against spiritual deception is knowledge of spiritual truth.
David Jeremiah
#25. The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be, all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
Socrates
#26. Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#28. I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock
#29. Thinking about something is the surest way to miss out on the beauty of that actual something.
Bentinho Massaro
#30. I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.
Banana Yoshimoto
#31. Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.
J.C. Ryle
#32. Eloquence in public assemblies is not the surest road to fame and preferment, at least unless it be used with great caution, very rarely, and with great reserve.
John Adams
#33. Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence.
John C. Maxwell
#34. The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.
John Randolph
#35. Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.
Theodore Roosevelt
#36. Be sincere - the surest was to become special in other's eyes is to make them feel special
Keith Ferrazzi
#37. An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.
Marie Stopes
#38. Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more interested in your applying them to your life. If you do not, then you are essentially not in accord with your own mind.
Miyamoto Musashi
#39. [The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.
Friedrich Paneth
#40. The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
Jean De La Bruyere
#41. Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
Jeremy Bentham
#42. Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.
Alice Hegan Rice
#43. Our message today is one of hope. It is about potential waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet the global challenges we face now and in the future is to make every mother and child count.
Lee Jong-wook
#44. Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.
Alexander Hamilton
#45. What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
James Madison
#46. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Colette
#47. Cruelty is the surest sign of stupidity.
Marty Rubin
#48. The surest way of misunderstanding revelation is to take it literally, to imagine that God spoke to the prophet on a long-distance telephone. Yet most of us succumb to such fancy, forgetting that the cardinal sin in thinking about ultimate issues is literal-mindedness.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#49. It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.
Charles Spurgeon
#50. My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.
Robert Southwell
#52. A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt
#53. Being greedy for money is the surest way not to get it, but when one serves for the sake of service - for the satisfaction of doing that which one believes to be right - then money abundantly takes care of itself.
Henry Ford
#54. The surest way of making a dupe is to let your victim suppose you are his.
Bill Vaughan
#55. Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#56. Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#57. Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#58. Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.
Walter Savage Landor
#59. Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny.
John F. Kennedy
#60. The surest path to positive self-esteem is to succeed at something which one perceived would be difficult. Each time we steal a student's struggle by insisting they do work too easy for them, we steal their opportunity to have an esteem-building experience.
Sylvia B. Rimm
#61. The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor ... Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas.
James Agee
#62. The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase.
Teresa Of Avila
#63. Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
Phil Crosby
#64. I don't know humans, but I know fools. And I know the surest way to encourage fools to follow a wicked man is to tell them not to.
R. Lee Smith
#65. Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#67. The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.
Philip Schaff
#68. It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
Ashley Montagu
#69. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson
#70. If we have lost faith in our vernaculars, it is a sign of want of faith in ourselves; it is the surest sign of decay.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.
Danielle LaPorte
#72. Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not being overly sad at the death of those whom we dearly love in our Lord.
Saint Ignatius
#73. The man is really looking for self-esteem, and he seeks to find it by winning the esteem of others. In our society, the fastest and surest way to do this is by amassing a great deal of money. So the money becomes a substitute, a symbol, for the esteem.
Sydney J. Harris
#74. But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought Of freedom, in that hope itself possess All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, The scorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek.
William Cowper
#75. That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.
Publilius Syrus
#76. One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Robert A. Heinlein
#77. If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside
Julie Andrews Edwards
#78. Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it ... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie
#79. Lifetime corporate employment is dead; we're all free agents now, managing our own careers across multiple jobs and companies. And because today's primary currency is information, a wide-reaching network is one of the surest ways to become and remain thought leaders of our respective fields.
Keith Ferrazzi
#80. Now he found out a new thing
namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Mark Twain
#81. Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Gustav Mahler
#82. Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown ... Man should always firmly believe that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him.
Gertrude The Great
#83. Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.
Bernard Barton
#84. New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.
Margaret Thatcher
#85. There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
George Washington
#86. To adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.
Simone De Beauvoir
#87. The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.
Laurence J. Peter
#88. The surest way to stay alive in the underworld was to make yourself indispensable.
Brandon Sanderson
#89. This invisible and divine goodness, of which I only speak here because of its being one of the surest and nearest signs of the unceasing activity of our soul, this invisible and divine goodness ennobles, in decisive fashion, all that it has unconsciously touched.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#90. The past was where he lived most confidently, and with the surest sense of knowing who he was - not only as a novelist.
John Irving
#91. The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
Francis Jeffrey
#92. Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics.
Eric Temple Bell
#93. Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
Alfred Whitney Griswold
#94. Necessity
thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
Walter Scott
#95. The surest way to find an actively managed fund that will have top-quartile returns is to look for a fund that has bottom-quartile expenses.
Burton Malkiel
#96. As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.
Shelley Hamlin
#97. Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#98. The surest way for a poor nation to stay poor is to harass, hobble, and straitjacket private enterprise or to discourage or destroy it by subsidized government competition, oppressive taxation, or outright expropriation.
Henry Hazlitt
#99. The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal
Mark Twain
#100. The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity.
Joseph Brodsky
