Quotes 261 till 280 of 349.
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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
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The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more service for the betterment of life.
My Life and Work: Top Biography -
The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.
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The highest virtue is always against the law.
Conduct of Life (1876) Worship -
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
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The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.
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The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.
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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
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The male singers who had the same range I did, when I was growing up, didn't do much for me. But put on Nina Simone, Carmen McRae or Nancy Wilson, and I'd be in seventh heaven. Female vocalists just did more with their voices, and that's why I paid more attention to them.
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The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
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The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
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The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.
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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
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The physician's highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy - to heal, as it is termed.
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The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
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The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
The Dud Avocado (1958) I, 8
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