Top 49 Severest Quotes
#1. For if the will has nothing to employ it and love has no present object with which to busy itself, the soul finds itself without either support or occupation, its solitude and aridity cause it great distress and its thoughts involve it in the severest conflict.
Teresa Of Avila
#2. The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.
Abraham Myerson
#3. When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.
Hilary Thayer Hamann
#4. There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Sea. It is the Gulf Stream.
Matthew Fontaine Maury
#6. Decency and tolerance, to be of any value, must be capable of withstanding the severest strain.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.
Thucydides
#8. We cannot fully understand now, but when we stand upon the heights of glory, we shall look back with joy on the things we have suffered, for we shall know then that our severest trials were a part of the "all things" which worked together for eternal good
John Albert Broadus
#9. A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.
Phyllis McGinley
#10. And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.
John F. Kennedy
#11. He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#12. The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.
David Whyte
#13. Music the fiercest grief can charm,
And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease,
And make despair and madness please;
Our joys below it can improve,
And antedate the bliss above.
Alexander Pope
#14. Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#17. The severest self-denials and the most lavish gifts are of no value in God's esteem unless they are prompted by love.
Arthur W. Pink
#18. At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.
Robert Carlyle
#19. What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!
Henry David Thoreau
#20. The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#21. It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher
#22. The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.
Joseph McCabe
#23. The severest charge that can be brought against the Christian education of the Negro in the South during the last thirty years is the reckless way in which sap-headed young fellows, without ability, and, in some cases, without character, have been urged and pushed into the ministry.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#24. Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood; her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
Henry David Thoreau
#25. I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#26. Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application,
Thomas A. Edison
#27. Unity to be real must survive the severest strain without breaking.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. Heaven often smites in mercy, even when the blow is severest.
Joanna Baillie
#29. We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.
Lord Byron
#31. He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.
Ashoka
#32. Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
Charles Eastman
#33. If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.
Jay Maisel
#34. No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.
Clarence Darrow
#35. Like many of my fellow preachers I acknowledge that my best and severest critic is my wife.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#36. The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
William Hazlitt
#37. But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire ... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.
Henry David Thoreau
#38. [I]t is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies.
Edward Abbey
#39. Sin is dark and loves the dark, still hides from itself in gloom, and in the darkest hell is still itself the darkest hell and the severest woe.
Robert Pollok
#40. The severest justice may not always be the best policy
Abraham Lincoln
#41. I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.
Huston Smith
#42. And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.
Thomas Gray
#43. If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness.
Sigmund Freud
#44. The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
Sydney J. Harris
#45. Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.
Marisha Pessl
#46. The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.
Lorenzo Snow
#47. Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.
Jascha Heifetz
#48. Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.
John Dryden
#49. I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.
Luis Suarez
