Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
The most important thing is to try to do your best.
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments. If you don’t celebrate those, they can pass you by.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
The most important thing is to never give up, never give in to circumstances, believe yourself, and to soldier on, no matter what’s in your way.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Nothing shines out more than a bride in her most natural state.
If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.
Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.
Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can’t lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
What I have is a malevolent curiosity. That’s what drives my need to write and what probably leads me to look at things a little askew. I do tend to take a different perspective from most people.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.
Every night of our lives, we dream, and our brain concocts visions which are, at least until we wake up, highly convincing. Most of us have had experiences which are verging on hallucination. It shows the power of the brain to knock up illusions.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business – and you can leverage that knowledge.
Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Violence has been Nicaragua’s most important export to the world.
The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike… you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it’s true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Use each interaction to be the best, most powerful version of yourself.
San Francisco is a mad city – inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.
Do not borrow the productions of other men’s brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.
I’m different than most people. When I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I’m thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow. It’s as if my journey is everlasting, and there is no finish line.
Life is not what you expect: it is made up of the most unexpected twists and turns.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.
Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to ensure the integrity of our voting process.
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
The most valuable investment we can make is in our children’s education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.
Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life.
