Higher Ground Quotes

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it is burning in your own soul.

  Harold B. Lee

  Fire, Light, Soul

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• Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Wells, Every Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1554, Delphi Classics

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• We must risk the journey to a higher ground where there
  is freedom from the gravitational pull of our stories,
  the pull that comes from years of trying to prove that
  the stories we tell ourselves, the ones we've made up,
  are the truth.

  Debbie Ford

  Journey, Years, Risk

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• We can become the masters of our own destinies by practicing self-discipline and by setting worthy goals that will lead to higher ground so that we can become what our heavenly father wants us to become.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Inspirational, Happy, Spiritual

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• Walk through the mud in life, if you ever want to get to the higher ground”

  Greg Plitt

  Want, Mud, Walks

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• Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.

  Vernon Howard

  Hurt, Block, People

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• If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lift Me Up, Lifts, Ifs

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• Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.

  Les Brown

  People, Want, Stay Motivated

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• You must every day make higher ground. You must deny yourself to make progress with God. You must refuse every- thing that is not pure and holy. God wants you pure in heart. He wants you to have an intense desire after holiness... Two things will get you to leap out of yourselves into the promises of God today. One is purity, and the other is FAITH, which is kindled more and more BY PURITY.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Heart, Two, Promise

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• We have every confidence that earth and hell will not overtake you, but it will require that you move from your current plateaus and climb to higher ground.

  Jack H. Goaslind

  Moving, Earth, Hell

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• Coming into World War II, we were seen as a conquering hero for beleaguered people, we are now seen as invader, an occupier. And what that is saying is we have more might than right, so we kind of have a kind of moral deficit disorder. And that's why a leader must lift us back to the higher ground, because at the end of the day what makes you strong is that you are believable, that as significant as might is, ultimately right is even stronger than might.

  Jesse Jackson

  Strong, War, Hero

  "Reverend Jesse Jackson". "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. February 21, 2007.

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• Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Men, Climbing, Law

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• We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

  Jim Wallis

  God, Moving, Diversity

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• Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.

  Lance Secretan

  Leadership, Needs, Followers

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• If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Encouragement, Integrity, Niece

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.80, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

  Bob Seger

  Philosophy, Passages, Everyman

  Song: Rite Of Passage

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• I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

  Pierce Brosnan

  Perseverance, Moving, Good Friend

  "Pierce Brosnan on How It All Began — and How Bond Ended". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. August 22, 2014.

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• If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.

  George Saunders

  Luck, Needs, Pieces

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I would prefer just to be an actor for hire rather than struggling with something like Higher Ground, that I had a lot of emotion attached to.

  Joe Lando

  Struggle, Actors, Emotion

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• On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Night, Given, Audience

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• We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, School, Destiny

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• We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Grace, Growth

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• If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?

  Enele Sopoaga

  Moving, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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