Utmost Quotes
340 quotes by 282 authors
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
— Plautus
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Patient and regular practice is the whole secret of spiritual realization. Do not be in a hurry in spiritual life. Do your utmost, and leave…
— Sivananda
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I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other…
— Socrates
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Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that Dharma…
— Gautama Buddha
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The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.
— Tony Hoare
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Patriotism is the intelligent appreciation that one's own welfare is inseparably connected with the general welfare and that to prosper personally one must intelligently do…
— Julius Sterling Morton
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Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image,…
— Pope Francis
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Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.
— Ralph Vaughan Williams
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When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real…
— Hilary Mantel
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I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only…
— John Brown
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Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any…
— Zoltan Kodaly
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An empathic way of being can be learned from empathic persons. Perhaps the most important statement of all is that the ability to be accurately…
— Carl Rogers
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At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software…
— Tony Hoare
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Many and many a person in Georgia asked me why we did not go to South Carolina; and, when I answered that we were en…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things…
— Richard P. Feynman
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The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.
— Henry Waxman
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It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life…
— Carl Levin
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