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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy

Gratitude, Live, Forget

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein

God, Morality, Importance

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
Michael Jordan

Successful, Selfish, Else

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer

Ignorance, Reject

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln

Art, Greatest, Person

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill

Against, Wind, Rise

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda

Time, Truth, Live

The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller

Education, Tolerance, Result

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dale Turner

Character, Mistakes, Mistake

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Alan Cohen

Good, Thankful, Thoughts

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

Experience, Wisdom, Reflection

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin

Dreams, Reality, Living

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

God, Revelation

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford

Best, Possible, Quality

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau

Quality, Arts, Affect

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino

Become, Here, Purpose

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Happiness, Gratitude, Thought

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington

Men, Few, Virtue

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau

Business, Successful, Him

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
Henry David Thoreau

Work, End, Humble

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Thomas A. Edison

Goal, Living, Until

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw

Long, Cannot, Climb

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard

Friendship, Used, Credit

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
Elbert Hubbard

Work, Good, God

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Beautiful, Read

Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato

Music, Philosophy

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Freedom, Alone

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