A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Colin Powell

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
Marcus Aurelius

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
George Orwell

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
Julius Caesar

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise Pascal

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Blaise Pascal

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Above anything else, I hate to lose.
Jackie Robinson

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
John Steinbeck

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Og Mandino

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.
Charles R. Swindoll

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson