Best highest & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The vibration of appreciation is also the highest, fastest vibration we can use for attraction. If we would shoot appreciation at anything and everything, all day long, we'd be guaranteed to have heaven on earth in no time, living happily ever after with more friends, more money, more beautiful relationships, in total safety, and closer to the God of our Being than it's possible to fathom.”

Source: Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings

“If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.”

Ifs Knows Desire Understanding Lessons Highest Advantage Oneself Delight Humble Valuable Obscurity True Understanding

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“The true American dream not only provides the freedom to use your gifts and talents to achieve your highest goal but also gives you the freedom to fulfill your purpose in life. You are meant to work in ways that suit you, drawing on your natural talents and gifts. This work, when you find it and commit to it - even if only as a hobby - is the key to happiness.”

Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement

“When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter what, there are no limits to what you can create for your life. However, when you make excuses, justify doing what easiest, and choose the path of least resistance, you will live a life of mediocrity, frustration and regret. Live with integrity as if your life depended on it, because it does.”

“Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.”

Ifs May Character Doors Example Benefits Highest Importance Worthy Opening Instruction Imitation Courtesy Enabling

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal... they are good; if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad.”

People Ifs Humans Feelings Age Given Highest Ideals Bases Sentiments Comprehension Exponents

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Go first to your Highest Thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say, and how you would respond to what others would do and say. Do you see any difference between that projection and what you think, do, and say now?”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Would Be Differences Imagine Highest About Yourself Projection

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.”

Ifs Light Lasts Deals Middle Highest Tone Accents

Author:John Singer Sargent

“Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.”

Ifs Knows Body Pain Worst Disease Highest Hunger

Author:Max Muller

“I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.”

Ifs Knows Looks Doe Whole Literature Stuff My Own Proud Highest Regard Flaws Right Words

Author:Neil Gaiman

“There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.”

Ifs Bigs Running Speak Nations Highest Training Sticks Doctrine Patriotic Efficient Navy Adages Homely Speak Softly Monroe Doctrine

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who are willing to tell you who you are, which are usually judgmental people ... we should really surround ourselves with the ones that adore us and believe in the highest of us.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Should Believe Body Used Willing Like You Highest Who You Are Your Body Surround Know Me Adore Insomnia Judgmental Surround Yourself I Like You Judgmental People

Author:Jewel

“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.”

Ifs Men Ideas Nations Goal Highest Standards Excellence Strive Mediocrity Phases Free Man Amiable Phases Of Life

Book:Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?

Source: Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?

“It doesn't matter how bad things are, something good could happen always. And it doesn't matter how many excuses you have for behaving in an unkind manner towards others. There's never any excuse for not being kind and it's always better to be kind even if it seems pointless and that in fact is the highest wisdom - being kind. It sounds like a very noble, ethereal, simplistic idea but it's true.”

Ifs Kind Ideas Matter Facts Seems Happens Sound Highest Excuse Noble Bad Things Be Kind Pointless Unkind Ethereal Excuse You

Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.”

“I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.... What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.”

Ifs Thinking Men Kind Would Be Humanity Sleep Century Highest Threat Raised Beast Prophet Jail Lions Irresistible Retribution Emblems Unarmed

Author:Boris Pasternak

“It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.; and it is one of the signs of the highest power in a writer to check all such habits of thought, and to keep his eyes fixed firmly on the pure fact , out of which if any feeling comes to him or his reader, he knows it must be a true one.”

Ifs Knows Facts Feelings Eye Speak Talking Sea Reader Habit Pure Highest Wave Rage Checks Fixed His Eyes Etc Flood True Ones Remorseless

Book:The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

“Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.”

Ifs Mind Said Feelings Speak Loss Study Ignorance Highest Pages Moved Spite Admiration Roger Multiplication Outbreaks Citations

Author:George Henry Lewes

“If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?”

Ifs Values Highest Disappointed Lowest

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for if you will receive it when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.”

Ifs Earth Father Heaven Christ Forever Highest Crosses Hung Thrones Bosoms

Book:The Good News of God: Sermons

Source: The Good News of God: Sermons

“If science were nothing more than the best means of teaching the love of the simple fact, the indispensable need of verification, of careful and accurate observation and statement, its value would be of the highest order.”

Ifs Needs Mean Facts Would Be Values Order Simple Teaching Highest Careful Statements Observation Accurate Indispensable Verification

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.”

Ifs Mind Turns Opinion Highest

Author:John Lancaster Spalding

“It is in our own mind and not in exterior objects that we perceive most things; fools know scarcely anything because they are empty, and their heart is narrow; but great souls find in themselves a number of exterior things; they have no need to read or travel or to listen or to work to discover the highest truths; they have only to delve into themselves and search, if we may say so, their own thoughts.”

Ifs Knows Needs Mind Heart May Soul Numbers Objects Fool Highest Empty Perceive Exterior Great Souls

Author:Luc de Clapiers

“I have the highest veneration of those Gentleman, -- but, Sir, give me leave to demand, what right had they to say, We, the People? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the People, instead of We, the States? States are the characteristics, and the soul of the confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one of great consolidated National Government of the people of all the States.”

“God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.”

Ifs Men World Should May Stills Lasts Asks Sin Despair Degrees Highest Draws Devil Flesh Conquer Triumph Preserves Superstitions Distrust Tempted Wickedness Petitions True Faith

Book:Martin Luther's Table Talk

Source: Martin Luther's Table Talk

“Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.”

Ifs Want Heart Mean Philosophy Facts Form Goal Existence Expression Morality Highest Ethics Statements Cognition

Author:Novalis

“I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you make a mistake, they know it and you know it. I won't do anything where I feel like I'm just making a fool out of myself. By doing that, I'm able to rise to my highest potential.”

Ifs Knows Feels Able Acting Mistake Stage Fronts Fool Highest Just Live

Author:Mike Tyson

“Not all practitioners can jump to that highest level. They have to climb, step by step from the physical sphere to reach the spiritual sphere. If it is treated as exercise it is not the fault of yoga but of the practitioners.”

Ifs Spiritual Levels Steps Exercise Highest Yoga Faults Treated Climbs Spheres

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man. Her mission and throne is the family, and if anything is withheld that would make her more efficient, useful, or happy in that sphere, she is wronged, and has not her rights.”

Ifs Men Women Family Rights Highest Missions Spheres Efficient Thrones Wronged Precious Gifts

Book:Woman's Rights

Source: Woman's Rights

“If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.”

Ifs Humans Seems Spiritual Values Universe Term Chance Existence Development Achievement Highest Endure Mortals Stable Irrational Human Existence Spiritual Values

Book:Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

“If I were afraid of polls, I never would've been elected in two landslide elections, leading a highest percentage in our state's last election for governor. If I were afraid of polls, we wouldn't have privatized our charity hospital system, we wouldn't cut our state budget 26%, wouldn't have cut over 30,000 state government bureaucrats, wouldn't have done statewide school choice. Here's the real record.”

“If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love”

Ifs Knows Names My Own Highest Calvary

Book:If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?

Source: If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?

“If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.”

“A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.”

Ifs Men World May Whole Seems Easy Levels Wife Fashion Position Genius Highest Originals Raises Whole World Engaged Bachelors

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The highest historical probability can be adduced in support of the proposition that, if it were possible to annihilate the Bible, and with it all its influences, we should destroy with it the whole spiritual system of the moral world.”

Ifs World Should Whole Spiritual Faith Moral Support Influence Highest Historical Probability Propositions

Author:Edward Everett

“The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.”

Ifs World Walks Practice Influence Morality Integrity Highest Standards Ethics Financial Disclosure Evangelists Ethics And Integrity

Author:Billy Graham

“Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.”

Ifs Wells Religion Dangerous Highest Ill Intellect Unhappy Endowment

Book:Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes

Source: Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society's: With Plates. In Two Volumes

“Every great religion on the planet, regardless of what spiritual or cultural tradition from which it is that it emerges, announces and declares that spiritual mastery is an open possibility for every member of the human race. If that is not true, then the highest promise of God is a lie.”

Ifs Humans Spiritual Lying Race Possibility Planets Promise Members Highest Tradition Human Race Mastery

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.”

Ifs Knows Trying Self Order Wonderful Periods Highest Abuse Pastor Perfectionism

Author:Ashley Judd

“Man was mark'd A friend in his creation to himself, And may, with fit ambition, conceive The greatest blessings, and the highest honors Appointed for him, if he can achieve them The right and noble way.”

Ifs Men Way May Achieve Creation Honor Fit Blessing Ambition Highest Mark Noble Greatest Blessings

Book:The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford

Source: The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford

“Only the highest souls realize and accept that he who sins is far more to be pitied, aye, and loved, if love is what the highest human passion should be, than is the one against whom the sinner has sinned.”

Ifs Should Humans Soul Passion Realizing Sin Love Is Accepting Highest Sinner

Author:Louise Jordan Miln

“Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.”

Ifs Form Spirit Order Justice Highest Ceremony Proceeding Regularity

Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

“The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth.”

Ifs Levels Laughing Highest Theater Comedian Mirth

Book:The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

Source: The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections

“Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.”

Ifs Men Way Humans May Mean Littles Persons Has Beens Causes Chance Wonder Doors Events Degrees Highest Misery Currents Human Life Trifling Vicissitudes

Author:Sir Fulke Greville

“If society is to progress on a truly humanistic basis, without being subject to mental epidemics and virulent social diseases to which the subconscious falls an easy victim, the personal consciousness of every individual should be cultivated to the highest degree possible.”

Ifs Should Fall Individual Social Easy Consciousness Progress Subjects Disease Degrees Highest Bases Victim Subconscious Epidemics Humanistic

Author:Boris Sidis

“But Russians, in their very nature, it seems, pass quickly from the highest enthusiam to complete dejection and distrust. They yield to their moods quite sincerely and go the whole way, entirely forgetting all moods preceding and opposite. They do not see any contradiction in such behaviour; or, if they do, they readily find excuses for it.”

Ifs Way Whole Seems Forget Highest Opposites Excuse Mood Russia Contradiction Yield Behaviour Distrust Sincerely

Author:Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia

“The highest praise a writer can give another is to say he wishes he had written his book. I wish I had written Forty Words for Sorrow. Giles Blunt has a tremendous talent. If you miss Forty Words for Sorrow, you'll miss one of best novels of 2001.”

Ifs Giving Book Wish Novel Written Talent Missing Sorrow Highest Praise Forty Blunt

Author:Tony Hillerman

“So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true.”

Ifs Children Fun Sweet Broken Highest Shadow Treats Bounds Circles Passing Passings Being True Plates Easter Stairs Shadow Of Death Broken Family

Author:Gerhard E Frost

“Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.”

Ifs Mean Grows Dark White Higher Citizens Protect Highest Safety Rounds Saint Necks Feminine Throat Conventions Worn Committees Public Life Obscene Ribbons Crimson Public Safety Inversions

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author. Presumably he knows more about the subject than you do; if not, you probably should not be bothering with his book. But understanding is a two-way operation; the learner has to question himself and question the teacher, once he understands what the teacher is saying. Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Two Book Reading Understanding Differences Pay Teacher Subjects Expression Conversation Highest Bother Operations Agreement Two Ways Learners

Author:Mortimer Adler

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