I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Lou Holtz

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
Henry David Thoreau

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
Jim Rohn

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Jim Rohn

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
Ted Turner

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.
Samuel Goldwyn

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Walt Whitman

That government is best which governs least.
Thomas Paine

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.
Karl Marx

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn

It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean.
Katharine Hepburn

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
Voltaire