High Road Quotes

• Ah, Sir, a novel is a mirror carried along a high road. At one moment it reflects to your vision the azure skies, at another the mire of the puddles at your feet. And the man who carries this mirror in his pack will be accused by you of being immoral! His mirror shews the mire, and you blame the mirror! Rather blame that high road upon which the puddle lies, still more the inspector of roads who allows the water to gather and the puddle to form.

  Stendhal

  Lying, Men, Feet

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.367, Tyché

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• My best life advice:Take the high road.No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road.You will never regret it.

  Tim Gunn

  Regret, Stress, Advice

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• The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.

  Scott Hamilton

  Honesty, Integrity, Taking The High Road

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• Always take the high road.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Taking The High Road

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded.

  Mia Farrow

  Taking The High Road, Lows, Crowded

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• The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

  Samuel Johnson

  Scotland, England, Nationalism

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 6 July 1763)

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• Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.

  Sandra Bullock

  Inspirational, Taking The High Road, Should

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• Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Lonely, Joy, May

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• All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

  Paula Abdul

  Lying, Taught, Taking The High Road

  "As the 'American Idol' turns". www.cnn.com. May 24, 2005.

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• You have the potential to become anything to which you set your mind. You have a mind and a body and a spirit. With these three working together, you can walk the high road that leads to achievement and happiness. But this will require effort and sacrifice and faith.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Sacrifice, Achievement, Effort

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• Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

  Warren Buffett

  Taking The High Road, Crowded

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• Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible.

  Bruce Lee

  Confidence, Self Esteem, People

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.31, Tuttle Publishing

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• Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Humility, Traffic, Heavy

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• People can be so petty, can't they? This is why you should only give as much notice as is considered culturally appropriate in the organization, and once you do, keep up with all of your job responsibilities until the very last hour. Other than that, all you can do is take the high road, and behave professionally yourself even if you aren't receiving the same treatment back.

  Alexandra Levit

  Responsibility, People, Giving

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low road of least resistance, can we even afford to travel the high road of ethical behavior? Frankly, we can't afford anything else. Any other competitive angle is a pure crapshoot in today's business world. Companies with shaky ethics and shabby standards will be crippled as they try to compete in our changing world.

  Price Pritchett

  Business, Believe, Cutting

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• Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would sink. But to go the low road to get to the high road- shameless exploitation for charity, for the common good- now that's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement.

  Paul Newman

  Agreement, Ideas, Oil

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• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Humanity, Promise

  "Unemployment". Winston Churchill's speech at Kinnaird Hall in Dundee, Scotland (October 10, 1908), as quoted in Winston Churchill "Liberalism and the Social Problem" (p. 87), 1909.

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• So you want to know all about me. Who I am. What chance meeting of brush and canvas painted the face you see? What made me despise the girl in the mirror enough to transform her,turn her to into a stranger, only not. So you want to hear the whole story. Why I swerved off the high road, hard left to nowhere, recklessly indifferent to those coughing my dust, picked up speed no limits,no top end, just a high velocity rush to madness.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Girl, Who I Am, Dust

  Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Crank”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The high road's the only road I know. Let's keep on that way.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Way, Knows

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Heart, Men, Winning

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• I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

  Max Born

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

  "Experiment and Theory in Physics" by Max Born, (p. 44), 1943.

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• It took a lot of courage to take the high road, but I would rather be significant with six million people watching a show with meaning, than everyone watching a show with no meaning.

  Oprah Winfrey

  People, Six, Taking The High Road

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• The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Lying, Successful

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.46

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• We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Cutting, Dark, Destiny

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.506, Penguin

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• I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!

  Erasmus Darwin

  Kings, Sorry, War

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