Surest Quotes

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

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

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

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

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

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.

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

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.

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.

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.

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

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

The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

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

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

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

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

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.

The surest test of discipline is its absence.

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.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

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

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.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.