Height Quotes - Page 28

• Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes.

  Simon Bolivar

  Fall, Wings, People

  Simón Bolívar, José Luis Salcedo-Bastardo (1983). “The hope of the universe”, United Nations Educational

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• Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

  Lynn Hill

  Climbing

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• The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really really going well that's the time to change.

  Edward Zander

  Thinking, Break, Wells

  "Edward Zander, Chairman and CEO of Motorola". Interview with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. December 14, 2006.

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

  Anthony de Mello

  Spirit, Raises, Offense

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, p. 80, 1992.

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• God blessed me with a lot of heart and no height, and I'll take that any day.

  Nate Robinson

  God, Blessed, Heart

  FaceBook post by Nate Robinson from May 07, 2013

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  No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry.

  William Wilberforce

  Christian, Perseverance, Art

  William Wilberforce (1834). “A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes in this country; contrasted with real Christianity. With a memoir, by T. Price”

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• What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work in accordance with the whole A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true humility So whether you're a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path If you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours

  Laozi

  Life, Humility, Men

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• Other heights in other lives, God willing.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Gods Will, Willing

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.693, Pearson Education

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• Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Truth, Long

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.

  Immanuel Kant

  School, Men, Hands

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of pure reason, tr. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn”, p.37

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• I can only gaze with wonder and awe at the depths of and heights of our psychic nature. Its non-spatial universe conceals an untold abundance of images which have accumulated over millions of years of living development and become fixed in the organism....Beside this picture I would like to place the spectacle of the starry heavens at night, for the only equivalent of the universe within is the universe without; and just as I reach this world through the medium of the body, so I reach that world through the medium of the psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Night, Years, Psychics

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• In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.

  Pope John Paul II

  Men, Catholic, Humanity

  Catholic Church. Pope (1978-2005 : John Paul II), Pope John Paul II (1979). “The Redeemer of man: encyclical”

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• How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'

  Confucius

  Greatness, Men, Perfect

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.286

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• The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.

  Confucius

  Greatness, Men, Honor

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.2, Delphi Classics

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• The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground.

  Confucius

  Distance, Men, Space

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.28, Delphi Classics

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• Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Noble, Unjust

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Moving, People, Needs

  Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.198, Egmont UK

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• EACH AND EVERY master, regardless of the era or place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the peak of Mount Fuji, but the goal is the same. There are many methods of reaching the top, and they all bring us to new heights. There is no need to battle with each other-we are all brothers and sisters who should walk the Path together, hand in hand. Keep to your Path, and nothing else will matter. When you lose your desire for things that do not matter, you will be free.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Brother, Hands, Goal

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.64, Shambhala Publications

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• It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state, that we can raise our people to greater heights.

  Oscar Micheaux

  Light, Race, People

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• He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Tree, Doe, Looks

  "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book VII, 8,

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• With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

  Alain Robert

  Rocks, Feelings, Elements

  Interview with Ard Arvin, www.buildering.net. June 4, 2006.

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• And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

  William Wordsworth

  Soul, Tasks, Gains

  'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 4, l. 136

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• The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!

  Robert Browning

  Soul, Body

  Robert Browning (1872). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”

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• As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Night, Lakes, Islands

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• The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Real, Knowledge, Age

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