Top 100 Utmost Quotes
#1. Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave the rest to God.
Sivananda
#2. Whence proceeds this weight we lay
On what detracting people say?
Their utmost malice cannot make
Your head, or tooth, or finger ache;
Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face,
Or put one feature out of place.
Jonathan Swift
#3. French is, in many ways, more difficult for an English-speaking person to sing. It is so full of complex and trying vowels. It requires the utmost subtlety.
Alma Gluck
#4. More than anything else, the sensation [of flying] is one of perfect peace mingled with an excitement that strains every nerve to the utmost - if you can conceive of such a combination.
Wilbur Wright
#5. The world, with all its beauty, its happiness and suffering, its joys and pains, is planned with the utmost ingenuity, in order that the powers of the Self may be shown forth in manifestation.
Annie Besant
#6. Be sure that your praise songs are numbered higher than your sorrowful dirges and your utmost hope, firmer than your woeful regrets. Be positive.
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. There's a lot of work being done today that doesn't have any soul in it. The technique may be the utmost perfection, yet it is lifeless. It doesn't have a soul. I hope my furniture has a soul to it.
Sam Maloof
#8. Sometimes it just means flying from Bogota to New York via Amsterdam to have a day with your kids. When we spend time with them, I think we do our utmost best to be really with them - on vacations or during weekends or even at breakfast in the morning.
Willem-Alexander, Prince Of Orange
#9. The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.
John Locke
#10. Vigilance in watching opportunity, tact and daring in seizing upon opportunity, force and persistence in crowding opportunity to its utmost of possible achievement - these are the martial virtues which must command success
Austin Phelps
#11. Harmon Killebrew was a gem. I can never thank him enough for all I learned from him. He was a consummate professional who treated everyone from the brashest of rookies to the groundskeepers to the ushers in the stadium with the utmost of respect.
Rod Carew
#12. In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
Italo Calvino
#13. Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#14. Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'
Hilaire Belloc
#15. Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.
Giuseppe Peano
#16. To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter for secrecy, but whatever we do with the utmost truthfulness and integrity, by virtue of its pureness, must be transparent as light.
Henry David Thoreau
#17. If I truly love another, I will obviously order my behavior in such a way as to contribute the utmost to his or her spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck
#18. The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison
#19. It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.
Edward Gibbon
#20. Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.
Mencius
#21. For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.
Christopher Ricks
#22. It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#23. You listen to me, Lance Hamilton, and you listen good. If you ever go near Savannah Carmichael again with anything but the utmost respect, I will come back here with my Army-issued sidearm and I will shoot your balls off your body. That is a bona fide goddamned promise. Nod if you understand me.
Katy Regnery
#24. This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet cannot be otherwise; that you no longer have any way out; that you will never become a different man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#25. It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.
Eisaku Sato
#26. The utmost zeal for Christ is consistent with common-sense and reason: raving, ranting, and fanaticism are products of another zeal which is not according to knowledge.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#27. But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.
Knut Hamsun
#28. There is one sure means in life of ensuring that you are not ground into paste by disappointment, futility and disillusionment. And that is always to ensure, to the utmost of your ability, that you are doing it solely for the money.
Michael Chabon
#29. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.
Tony Hoare
#30. He quickly pulled back and shook out his mane, in what he hoped was a very dignified manner. Yes, he was a horse, but he was still a man. Except anatomically. And he would be treated accordingly, with the utmost respect.
Cynthia Hand
#31. Most people don't manage to the utmost of their ability because they don't want to.
Robert Heller
#32. The only service you can render God is to give expression to what he is trying to give the world, through you. The only service you can render God is to make the very most of yourself in order that God may live in you to the utmost of your possibilities.
Wallace D. Wattles
#33. While I will always have the utmost respect for the superhuman out-of-bounds freestyle and extreme stunts that seem to continually progress beyond our imaginable limits, my highest appreciation goes out to the simple rider who's out there just for the experience.
Craig Kelly
#34. There is a global epidemic where one out of three women will be beaten or sexually assaulted in their lifetimes? How are we going to build a future of love and connection? And why would this not be of utmost concern to men?
Eve Ensler
#35. By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
Ralph Ellison
#36. the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind. Does
C.S. Lewis
#37. It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.
James Cash Penney
#39. If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#41. And this grey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge, like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
Richard Flanagan
#42. Why did he go onward? Why did he not rest here upon the bottom of utmost humiliation and for a while take his content?
But he went onward.
Carson McCullers
#43. Failure results from lack of focus and half trust. Success results from complete devotion and utmost trust.
Debasish Mridha
#44. I believe that it is of the utmost importance that we all should feel and inculcate among the people and circulate amongst them what I call a sense of compatriotism. We should all feel that we are all nationals of one country, whatever our race, colour, creed, or sect ...
A. D. Patel
#45. Have the utmost respect for your subjects. Love them.
Joyce Tenneson
#46. The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
Italo Calvino
#47. I have received delegations of working men who come, apparently speaking of the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship to be deprived of their beer.
Woodrow Wilson
#48. We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.
Jimmy Carter
#49. The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
Alfred North Whitehead
#51. Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.
Pope Francis
#52. The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch. Deal ye one with another with the utmost love and harmony, with friendliness and fellowship ... So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
Baha'u'llah
#53. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.
John Milton
#54. Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all.
Anne Bronte
#55. I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it ... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.
Zach Johnson
#56. If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.
Margaret Mead
#57. I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K., its citizens, its businesses and people.
Prince Andrew
#58. The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#59. Depend on it, I will defend this little citadel to the utmost.
Samuel Johnson
#60. I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
Plautus
#61. The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise.
Victor Hugo
#62. A motorcyclist rode down the empty street, arms and legs rounded in an O, and came back up with the sound of thunder; his face displayed seriousness of a child who attributes the utmost importance to his howls
Robert Musil
#63. Bhakti yoga is a way of transforming your emotion from negativity to utmost pleasantness.
Jaggi Vasudev
#64. The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#65. I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant man can occasionally make a mistake.
Chuichi Nagumo
#66. Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.
E.F. Benson
#67. What does he know of the force that drives the utmost strangers into each other's arms, making them kin, kind, beyond all prudence?
J.M. Coetzee
#68. When you play against top players, sometimes you can play - you can play your utmost and you still get beat.
Tim Howard
#69. If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle.
#70. I have the utmost respect for the different faiths professed by my fellow men.
Leverett Saltonstall
#71. The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.
H.L. Mencken
#72. As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature.
David Hume
#73. I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards - You name them; I'll shoot them!
George S. Patton
#74. I will fill my life with so much of positivity, happiness and brilliance that God will one day say with utmost pride,
"This is the most amazing Kaleidoscope to view".
Harshada Pathare
#75. In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!
James Monroe
#76. I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s.
Ariel Rechtshaid
#77. My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.
Milan Kundera
#78. I learned a long time ago writing does soothe the soul. Our deepest feelings grasp our hands and as fast as you think of it your utmost feelings is in plain view. "A wisp of a thought brought to life.
Darlene Cruz
#79. It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.
William Bartram
#80. [A person's] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.
David Hume
#81. The best thing about it is that she [Sophia Loren] is the most normal person, and I have the utmost admiration and love for her. I know that she is an icon and an absolute legend, but as a family member, the most beautiful thing is that she is really, really normal.
Sasha Alexander
#82. Kasturi was in the seventh month of gestating Coinman - a high-attention and high-priority stage of a pregnancy - a time that requires utmost care in bringing one life safely to the world without losing the other.
Pawan Mishra
#83. The (state of) vacancy should be brought to the utmost degree, and that of stillness guarded with unwearying vigour.
Lao-Tzu
#84. The needs of the people around you should your utmost priority
Sunday Adelaja
#85. With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.
W. Eugene Smith
#86. There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
Hermann Hesse
#87. When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.
Hilary Mantel
#88. Once I put myself into a thing, I do my utmost, my very, very best.
Sophia Loren
#89. When people are doing their utmost to upset you, it's probably best to just laugh at them.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#90. And go to San Francisco! It's one of the twelve most interesting cities in the world. California has immense contrasts - the utmost wealth and the most hideous squalor. But there's beauty and interest everywhere.
Oliver Sacks
#91. The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society.
Pedro Passos Coelho
#92. I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.
Bob Ney
#93. The role of women in the development of society is of utmost importance. In fact, it is the only thing that determines whether a society is strong and harmonious, or otherwise. Women are the backbone of society.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#94. Of how much importance is it, that the utmost pains be taken by the public to have the principles of virtue early inculcated on the minds even of children, and the moral sense kept alive.
Samuel Adams
#95. I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Louis Aragon
#96. Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#97. There are a lot of directors out there who are very specific, visual craftsmen, and while I have the utmost respect for that, they don't really communicate with the actors.
Peter Dinklage
#98. Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.
Michael Haneke
#99. Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point
a great crossroads in our life. From that point we either go more and more toward a slow, lazy, and useless Christian life, or we become more and more on fire, giving our utmost for His highest
our best for His glory.
Oswald Chambers
#100. It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
William Wilberforce
