Most Quotes by Louis D. Brandeis, Abraham Lincoln, Frank Lloyd Wright, Harry von Zell, George Washington, Peter Porter and many others.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
The single most important ingredient in the recipe for success is transparency because transparency builds trust.
Translation is like a woman. If it is beautiful, it is not faithful. If it is faithful, it is most certainly not beautiful.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
You don’t have to be a ‘person of influence‘ to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me.
Grit is that ‘extra something‘ that separates the most successful people from the rest. It’s the passion, perseverance, and stamina that we must channel in order to stick with our dreams until they become a reality.
We fear the thing we want the most.
We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
I don’t have a formula to pass on. I always did it my own way. Even today, I hold my independence close. It’s what’s most precious to me. Passion. Risk. Tenacity. Consistency. This is my professional history.
I’ve found beauty in such unexpected places. I think the most beautiful thing you can do is be yourself and to own it.
Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.
Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.
The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
The most important thing in the world is family and love.
We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere… can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
I never said most of the things I said.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
The most valuable investment we can make is in our children‘s education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.
Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It’s a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people’s minds. I’m talking about your language.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. ‘If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
Boxing is the most beautiful thing after women.
Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.
The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.
Together we are stronger, our voices louder, and the synergy of our actions more powerful. Together we can prevail on the Navy to put commonsense safeguards in place, like requiring its ships to avoid the most sensitive marine mammal habitats and to stop their training exercises during peak migrations.
I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
If we can’t begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.
Social engineering has become about 75% of an average hacker’s toolkit, and for the most successful hackers, it reaches 90% or more.
Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.
Life is short and you’ve got to get the most out of it.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
To me, we are the most beautiful creatures in the whole world. Black people. And I mean that in every sense.
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don’t do it.
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
In the journey of an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that belief into reality.
Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education – that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness.
I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.
Most smiles are started by another smile.
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They’re playing the sprint. They’re not worried about lifetime value and retention. They’re worried about short-term goals.
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
It’s not who’s the best – it’s who can take the most pain.
Wild globalisation has benefited some, but it’s been a catastrophe for most.
The most important thing is to never give up, never give in to circumstances, believe yourself, and to soldier on, no matter what‘s in your way.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
What I’ve enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn – I love it!
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
After the verb ‘to Love’, ‘to Help’ is the most beautiful verb in the world.
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
I became a very simple person. The simple things are the most precious to me. I don’t ascribe much significance to the things I have now. That feeling of touching death has never left me.
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
It hasn’t always been easy. There’s a lot of hard moments. Sometimes you learn from the end of the bench. Sometimes you learn from injuries. Sometimes you learn the most through the hard things. If you can keep a good attitude and keep on working, eventually situations change, and you can put those things to use.
Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
To be free and to live a free life – that is the most beautiful thing there is.
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
You really don’t need to wear any make-up most of the time; keep your eyebrows the way they are, and find your own natural beauty signature.
One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Observe all men, thyself most.
Leadership is a way of thinking, a way of acting and, most importantly, a way of communicating.
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don’t celebrate those, they can pass you by.
True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.
What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.
The most simple things can bring the most happiness.
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike… you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it’s true.
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Most of my memories are the sound of rain on caravan roofs.
The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
Less than 1 percent of ancient Egypt has been discovered and excavated. With population pressures, urbanization, and modernization encroaching, we’re in a race against time. Why not use the most advanced tools we have to map, quantify, and protect our past?
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It’s better than art because it’s from the creator.
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Football is my sanctuary. It’s where I go to escape. It’s where I’m most happy.
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
Oftentimes, the most important decisions I make are the ones I don’t put much thought into.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I’d say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I’ve seen.
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.
Fashion is the most beautiful illusion you can have.
The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I’ve always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It’s been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It’s a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
‘Obvious‘ is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.
Things never go the way you expect them to. That’s both the joy and frustration in life. I’m finding as I get older that I don’t mind, though. It’s the surprises that tickle me the most, the things you don’t see coming.
Body language and tone of voice – not words – are our most powerful assessment tools.
Family is the most important thing in the world.
At some stage in most people’s lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.
Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
For the most part, Islam is about peace. It’s dealing with submission to the most high. Mohammed is a prophet, a messenger. But at the same time, we’ll fight in the name of Allah. We’re not going to let you disrespect our prophet.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority.
The creative people I admire seem to share many characteristics: A fierce restlessness. Healthy cynicism. A real world perspective. An ability to simplify. Restraint. Patience. A genuine balance of confidence and insecurity. And most importantly, humanity.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it’s not as good as you’d hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.
Be true to yourself, stay focused and stay you, take advice from other folks, use what you can, but never mind what is not for you. For the most part, trust yourself and believe in what you are doing.
Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.
People don’t understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that’s been what has gotten me this far.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
It doesn’t matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
I think it’s important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven‘t had the right mentors and supporters around them – because of circumstances beyond their control.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.
As humans, we’re going to make mistakes. It’s what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.
I absolutely adore cows. They’re the most fascinating, gentle and beautiful animals. Their eyes are so amazing. I have ten that live on the land around my house. I love to talk to them. There are few things better than falling asleep in a field and being woken up by an inquisitive cow.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
Do not borrow the productions of other men’s brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family.
A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
We should not say that one man‘s hour is worth another man‘s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.
I tell my daughter every morning, ‘Now, what are the two most important parts of you?’ And she says, ‘My head and my heart.’ Because that’s what I’ve learned in the foxhole: What gets you through life is strength of character and strength of spirit and love.
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.
I know who I am. I am not perfect. I’m not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I’m one of them.
The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child’s home.
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Most decisions are not binary, and there are usually better answers waiting to be found if you do the analysis and involve the right people.
Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false… In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
I’m obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there’d be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
The most important decision I’ve made in business? The choices of people I have around me. When I first started I brought everybody with me, my homies from the neighborhood, criminals. I just said, ‘Come on everybody, we made it.’ Then I had to realize we didn’t make it. I made it.
We are most alive when we’re in love.
I’m not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage.
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ’cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.
Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don’t have to have the most talent in the world. You don’t have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful.
The most important part are the fans, that people going home are happy. It’s their time off, and you should give them something to enjoy.
Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.
You can’t please everyone. When you’re too focused on living up to other people’s standards, you aren’t spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it’s all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
The most important question in 21st-century economics may well be, ‘What should we do with all the superfluous people, once we have highly intelligent non-conscious algorithms that can do almost everything better than humans?’
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
The most important thing is to stay down to earth and keep concentrating on the next game.
I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.
Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
He has the most who is most content with the least.
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can’t lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you’re in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!
Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited… It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.
Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can’t see how it’s possible to get what they want, so they don’t even let themselves want it.
Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.
Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won’t buy. It bought me a house but it won’t buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won’t buy me a friend.
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.
Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill.
We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There’s a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Fear is the most debilitating emotion in the world, and it can keep you from ever truly knowing yourself and others – its adverse effects can no longer be overlooked or underestimated. Fear breeds hatred, and hatred has the power to destroy everything in its path.
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth.
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
The most important thing is to try to do your best.
If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.
All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Peter Parker is probably the most relatable superhero – maybe ever – because he goes through something that basically everyone has to go through. Whether it’s puberty or talking to girls or doing homework, he does it in such a human way. That’s why he’s such a beloved character: because so many people can relate to him.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
NATO’s brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
It’s funny how most people love the dead, once you’re dead, you’re made for life.
Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.
We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.
You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow – after you have done your best to achieve success today.
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.
The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols.
In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother’s side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
Allah says in the Qur’an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It’s who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque – and I’m a basketball player with money and prestige – if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He’s better than me. It’s about knowledge.
Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues… I’m someone who changes his mind all the time.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
You teach best what you most need to learn.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don’t fit into boxes.
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
Education is lacking in most of those who pontificate.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
All over the world, independent and strong civil society – NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates – help governments solve problems and better serve their people better by shining a light on the issues that matter most – like education standards, access to healthcare, the rule of law, and economic opportunity.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world.
The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.
Most people don’t have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
Every morning, we choose between milk or tea or coffee. Usually, I know what I like, but I don’t rule out changing my idea sometimes. The editing process is one of the most important parts in everyday life. The same is with my work: mistakes are part of the decision-making process.
I think that’s the most beautiful thing about being confident – just loving yourself, not caring what everybody else thinks. Because you could be Mother Theresa, and people are still going to try to find some imperfection.
I think I’m just always myself, and I think that’s what’s most important to me. Just be genuine. Be authentic. Be who you are and who you were meant to be. And celebrate that. Celebrate all of that.
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
No matter if you win or lose, the most important thing in life is to enjoy what you have.
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that’s the most interesting: the part that doesn’t go according to what you expected.
Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect.
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
Laughter is America’s most important export.
The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn’t see many paintings with black people in them.
America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
In raising children, we need to continuously keep in mind how we can best create the most favorable environment for their imitative behavior. Everything done in the past regarding imitation must become more and more conscious and more and more consciously connected with the future.
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
The biggest and most deadly ‘tax‘ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.
Our most valuable resources – creativity, communication, invention, and reinvention – are, in fact, unlimited.
For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Gratitude is one of the strongest and most transformative states of being. It shifts your perspective from lack to abundance and allows you to focus on the good in your life, which in turn pulls more goodness into your reality.
