(407 quotes found)
“Fight for your highest attainable aim/ But never put up resistance in vain.”
Hans Selye
“By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.”
Samuel Johnson
“Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous”
Maria Edgeworth
“We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.”
Wallace Stevens
“Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.”
Charles Lenox Remond
“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.”
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
Walter Bagehot
“It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.”
John Steinbeck
“Aim for the highest.”
Andrew Carnegie
