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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

Success, Failure, Two

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Him, Youth, Hold

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark Twain

Good, Against, Temptation

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George Washington

Religion, Good, Great

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Thomas S. Monson

Integrity, Individual, Test

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

Life, Universe, Tried

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Robert A. Heinlein

Life, Good, Happy

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
Dale Carnegie

Fear, Keep, Conquer

Ignoring a child's disrespect is the surest guarantee that it will continue.
Fred G. Gosman

Child, Disrespect, Continue

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Poor, Honest, Remain

The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects.
Lord Jeffrey

May, Taken, Sign

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Others, Deceived, Consider

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.
Henry L. Stimson

Life, Trust, Long

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Alexis de Tocqueville

War, Nation, Means

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires.
Dorothy Corkville Briggs

Jealousy, Feeling, Another

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Friends, Fortune, Passport

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.
James Russell Lowell

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
James Madison

Learning, Liberty, Support

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

Life, Sometimes, Universe

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Friendship, Gratitude, Him

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Old, Year, Growing

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannes

Great, Road, Lovers

The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Annie Dillard

Age, Loneliness, Sign

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
Georges Pompidou

Women, Three, Pleasant

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Words, Sense, Original

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
Jean de la Bruyere

Death, Long, Passion

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
Alan Rickman

Time, Children, Small

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
Douglas William Jerrold

Heart, Woman, Aim

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley

Him, Monkey, Quote

The surest test of discipline is its absence.
Clara Barton

Discipline, Test, Absence

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