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most Quotes A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil - but it needs a little mulch of... A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a... A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly... A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about... A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political... About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you.... About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. ... Advice is least heeded when most needed. ... After the verb To Love...To Help is the most beautiful verb in the world. ... All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. ... All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have... All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. ... Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is... Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken. ... Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness,... Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. ... Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do. ... Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. ... As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that... As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. ... As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use... At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel. ... Because of Christ's resurrection - and His guarantee that He will resurrect all who believe in Him - we... Before borrowing money from a friend it's best to decide which you need most. ... Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. ... Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck - but, most of all, endurance. ... But respect yourself most of all. ... Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for... Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land.... Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline. ... Children are our most valuable natural resource. ... Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions. ... Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. ... Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image... Commit yourself to a dream Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why?... Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why?... Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all. ... Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. ... Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate;... Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither... Cultivate your curiosity. Keep it sharp and always working. Consider curiosity your life preserver, your willingness to try something... Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation... Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of... Do as most do, and men will speak well of you. ... Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? ... Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. ... Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ... Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. ... Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final... Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. ... Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. ... Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent.... Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul... Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most... Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. ... For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news. ... For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice. ... For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. ... For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the... For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the... Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want... Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them... Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so... He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. ... He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But... High office teaches decision making, not substance. [It] consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials... History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. ... History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they... History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history... Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks. ... Honour thy father and thy mother stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness. ... How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times... Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard... I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of... I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never happened. ... I am the person most qualified to host a talk show. I have five kids from three different marriages.... I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a... I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would... I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the... I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine. ... I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and... I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how... I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful... I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I... I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and... I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ... I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the... I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear... I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no... I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've... I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the... I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at... I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilized music... If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with... If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity,... If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics. ... If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby... If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world... If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is... If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find... I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side - I've noticed those with the most opinions often... Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover... In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. ... In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable... In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize... In crises the most daring course is often safest. ... In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the... In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the... In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy... In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are... In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and... Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. ... Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very... It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off.... It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he... It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with... It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is... It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills... It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This... It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished... It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become... It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that... It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help... It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. ... It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do... It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us. ... It isn't the great pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.... It may be that those who do most, dream most. ... It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.... It's hard to say who gets criticized the most, the successful person, or the failure but it's mighty close.... It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. ... It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. ... Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one,... Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. ... Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind. ... Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man. ... Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. ... Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most... Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. ... Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If... Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.... Living up to basic ethical standards in the classroom - discipline, tolerance, honesty - is one of the most... Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships. ... Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can... Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind... Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. ... Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh. ... Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ... Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. ... Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most... Man's most valuable trait Is a judicious sense of what not to believe. ... Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing... Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if... Most certification today is pure “credentialism.” [It] must begin to reflect our demand for excellence, not our appreciation of... Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world … often... Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world … often... Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily... Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily... Most everything in my brain, someone else helped put there. ... Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving... Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is... Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ... Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination... Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in... Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but... Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds... Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. ... Most of our students are here to get the credentials they believe are central to admission to the Dream.... Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of... Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of... Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when... Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive... Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision. ... Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past. ... Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ... Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose... Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night... Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. ... Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. ... Most of us have been taught about the need to appropriate by faith what is already ours through grace.... Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are,... Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ... Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out... Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.... Most people are searching for happines. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something... Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy... Most people die at the last minute; others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of... Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line...one foot... Most people go on living their everyday life: half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is... Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical... Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make... Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to... Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes; clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never... Most people who succeed n the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to... Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ... Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. ... Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal... Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They... Most [tax revisions] didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington itself: complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook... Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.... Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most... Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable?... Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can... Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on, and one to think with. Ever since then man's... Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel... Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with... Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor. ... No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or... Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly... Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most. ... Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now,... Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability... Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. ... Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its... Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may... Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water... Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. ... One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him... One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that... One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. ... One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful; joy... One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine... One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put... One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made... One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life.... One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days... One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success. ... One's religion is whatever one is most interested in. ... Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would... Opportunities are disguised by hard work, so most people don't recognize them. ... Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ... Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ... Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ... Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.... Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is... Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this... Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells... Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take... Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions. ... People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. ... People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because... People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. ... People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only... People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too. ... Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are... Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal... Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for... Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have... Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have... Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself to do the thing you... Play has been man's most useful preoccupation. ... Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened... Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. ... Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but... Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most... Relationships - of all kinds - are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand,... Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is always... Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. ... Respect yourself most of all. ... Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that... Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American... [Richard] Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity.... Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or... Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or... Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of... Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes... Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and... Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the... Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to... Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ... Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner. ... Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned... Someone asked Sophocles, How do you feel now about sex? Are you able to have a woman? He replied,... Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. ... Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. ... Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit … The lesson that... Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what... That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the... That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the... The American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a... The Dilbert Principle: The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least... [The Soviet government] is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals. ... The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times. ... The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do... The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper. ... The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt... The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of... The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance. ... The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous - on the... The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the... The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that... The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most. ... The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. ... The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in... The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human... The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone... The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to... The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. ... The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to... The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the...