Top 429 Nearest Quotes & Sayings

Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.

The nearest I have ever seen to the great Willie Pep

It is deeply interesting to notice also where the citizens were put to work. Each was set to labor on the bit of all opposite his home... I do not say that men are not called to service in far distant places... But I do say that for the vast majority the task that God appoints is the task lying at the door. The nearest thing is God's thing. The nearest duty is God's duty. He who cannot find his service there is little likely to be useful anywhere.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection.

Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.

The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

The nearest figure to myself would be Shakespeare.

I plucked a ruby off the nearest plant and threw it at Hades.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

I THINK the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lord’s table.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

Work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find.

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth.

Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us.

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

When prayers are strongest, mercies are nearest.

Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.

That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and nearest at hand.

Shakespeare - The nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.

The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau.

I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

I am my nearest neighbour.

Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

A good friend is my nearest relation.

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.

He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue.

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.

Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to "learn." What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying "Know thyself."

I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods.

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.