These supreme quotes will inspire you. Supreme highest in rank, power, or authority or (of authority or an office, or someone holding it) superior to all others.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging supreme quotes, supreme sayings, and supreme proverbs.
Best Supreme Quotes
- “I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “The one supreme business of life is to find God’s plan for your life and live it” ~ E. Stanley Jones
- “Time is the supreme Law of nature.” ~ Arthur Eddington
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“Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
- “All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
- “Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.” ~ Ram Dass
- “Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.” ~ John Henry Newman
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“You cannot understand the glories of the universe without believing there is some Supreme Power behind it.” ~ Stephen Hawking
- “I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls” ~ Rumi
- “When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.” ~ Paul Goodman
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“The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.” ~ Wilferd Peterson
- “Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe.” ~ Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , Supreme quotes power
- “By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.” ~ Robert Vaughn
- “The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being.” ~ Jonathan Edwards
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“Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “Persuade your fellow citizens it’s a good idea and pass a law. That’s what democracy is all about. It’s not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society.” ~ Antonin Scalia
- “The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.” ~ R. C. Sproul
- “I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There’s nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you’ll be loved in return is what’s foolish.” ~ Rita Mae Brown
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“The most perfect society is that whose purpose is the universal and supreme happiness.” ~ Gottfried Leibniz
- “The foolish being who lives making even the slightest distinction between the supreme Self and his own self will always be subject to fear.” ~ Swami Muktananda
- “The Bible places supreme value in the thought life. “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he,” Solomon wrote. Jesus asserted that sin’s gravity lay in the idea itself, not just the act.
“Paul admonished the church at Philippi to have the mind of Christ, and to the same people he wrote, “Whatever is true … pure … if there be any virtue … think on these things.” Thus, the
follower of Christ must demonstrate to the world what it is not just to think, but to think justly.” ~ Ravi Zacharias - “Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms against infringement by the government, state legislatures continue to do just that – enact laws that significantly infringe this fundamental human right.” ~ Bob Barr
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“Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.” ~ Lewis B. Smedes
- “It can be lost, and it will be, if the time ever comes when these documents are regarded not as the supreme expression of our profound belief, but merely as curiosities in glass cases.” ~ Harry S. Truman
- “When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.” ~ Carl Jung
- “Love supreme defies all sophistry.” ~ George Eliot
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“The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.” ~ Friedrich August von Hayek
- “Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- “The Supreme Court of Canada has given prisoners the “right” to vote. Is it not time that non-jailed citizens were given reciprocity with a “right” that prisoners have; namely the freedom to bypass the public system when it fails to provide reasonable access?” ~ Brian Day
- “Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.” ~ Joshua Fernandez
- “Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected in the Strand, half way between the historic site of Westminster the historic centre of the commercial capital of the world, there began to grow up, in the minds of reformers, the vision of a great and united Supreme Court of Justice, with uniform principles, uniform law, and uniform procedure.” ~ Edward Jenks
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“Religion is another name for the realization of Truth. It consists in becoming and being one with the Supreme Being. Doctrines and dogmas are only details of a secondary nature.” ~ Narayanananda Swami.
- “Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you’ve created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.” ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
- “The Supreme Court had the choice not only which way to rule, pro- or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were going to rule. They could have ruled just federalism, saying, “This isn’t a matter for federal; this isn’t a federal issue at all. States should decide it.” Or they could decide it on equal protection grounds and say that, “Gay discrimination is wrong.”” ~ Barack Obama
- “It is Japan’s mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.” ~ Sadao Araki
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“I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light.” ~ Enoch Fitch Burr
- “We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.” ~ African Spir
- “The supreme blossoming of character lies (or reside) in renounciation (or renuncement) and abnegation of self (“abnégation de soi”, Fr.)” ~ African Spir
- “Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part – a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection” (“La religion n’et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante – une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l’absolu est la source de toute perfection”, Fr.)” ~ African Spir
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“The most sacred duty, the supreme and urgent work, is to deliver humanity from the malediction of Cain – fratricidal war.” ~ African Spir
- “I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn’t want to be a lawyer. I just wanted to go straight to being a justice.” ~ Gillian Jacobs
- “With diadem and sceptre high advanced,
The lower still I fall; only supreme
In misery; such joy ambition finds.” ~ John Milton - “When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.” ~ Leah Ward Sears
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“We don’t have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.” ~ Vince Vaughn
- “After ‘Roe v. Wade’ – when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 – I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.” ~ Karen DeCrow
- “In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.” ~ Karen DeCrow
- “The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.” ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
- “President Bush said yesterday that it was appropriate for the White House to invoke Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers’s religion in making the case for her to skeptical conservatives, triggering a debate over what role, if any, her evangelical faith should play in the confirmation battle.” ~ Peter Baker
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“In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.” ~ William James
- “No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.” ~ Benjamin Robbins Curtis
- “With all due respect to all philistines, the dictatorship of the proletariat does just consist in “giving a hiding” to the classes that were previously supreme, before forcing them to recognize the new order and to submit to it.” ~ Leon Trotsky
- “I got into online trading. It was alarmingly easy to do. I went through the whole cycle of emotions, from supreme self-confidence to total impotence. I broke even in the end.” ~ James Lasdun
- “Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life’s supreme complications.” ~ T. S. Eliot
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“Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.” ~ Carl Jung
- “Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they’ve always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.” ~ Francois Rabelais
- “Heavenly Father – take to thee The supreme iniquity Fashioned by thy candid Hand In a moment contraband – Though to trust us seem to us More respectful – We are Dust – We apologize to thee For thine own Duplicity.” ~ Emily Dickinson
- “You better believe that I want to build a Christian nation, because the only option is a pagan nation. Not that the government can make someone a Christian by decree. A Christian nation would be defined as We acknowledge God in our body politic, in our communities, that the God of the Bible is our God, and, we acknowledge that His law is supreme.” ~ Randall Terry
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“When did it become the law of the land that the Supreme Court has the final say on anything? They cannot have the final say on anything. The American people have the final say on anything.” ~ Rick Santorum
- “What I’m critical of is – the White House attacking conservatives, for saying we’re elitist for pointing out that Harriet Miers isn’t qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. I’m starting to feel sort of bad about – about saying that. And I’m annoyed with George Bush [Jr.] for putting us in the position of having to say that.” ~ Ann Coulter
- “An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe. So, if I say I am the Supreme Architecture, I’m letting Allah speak. I’m becoming a vehicle.” ~ RZA
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“Nihilism: any aim is lacking, any answer to the question “why” is lacking. What does nihilism mean?–that the supreme values devaluate themselves.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The woman and the genius do not work. Up to now, woman has been mankind’s supreme luxury. In all those moments when we do our best, we do not work. Work is merely a means to these moments.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “What makes us heroic?–Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
