Browsing Topic Best Height Quotes

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Our liberty will not be secured at the sword’s point… We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.

Making fun of anyone’s size, height, scarring, anything like that equals dumb.

When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

We ascend to the heights of contemplation by the steps of action.

The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don’t know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt, and general indifference, and they call it love. Once you’ve felt what it means to love as you and I know it – the total passion for the total height – you’re incapable of anything less.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience.

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.

Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is heavy and make himself light–I call it a divine capacity for lightness.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regimen or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart.

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

Knowledge is the ability to love, the ability to feel, the ability to probe the depths and the heights of life. It is the experience of the experiencer, and at the same time, it is beyond that.

The business of a general is to kick away the ladder behind soldiers when they have climbed up a height.

Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun’s rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.

The lotus’ stem is as long as the depth of water,So men’s height is just as great as their inner strength.

Don’t point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.

Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.

If I can’t blow to significant heights, at least I can inspire the niggas that’s doing the big numbers.

Brings [O’Brian’s] achievement to a new height….Such is O’Brian’s power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O’Brian a Master of the Art.

There’s still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

When I first went to New York, I didn’t really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn’t really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.

Why should self-indulgent nonsense – whatever its professed political orientation – be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?