Tiptoes Quotes

• Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

  Josh Billings

  Wisdom, Learning, Sleep

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.

  Robert Breault

  Morning, Night, Feelings

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• The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  High Heels, Idealism, Idealist

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• He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

  Laozi

  Tao Te Ching, Doe, Aspiration

  Laozi (1997). “Tao Te Ching”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

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• Tiptoe through the tulips with me.

  Al Dubin

  "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" (song) (1935)

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• He who stands on tiptoe
  doesn't stand firm.
  He who rushes ahead
  doesn't go far.
  He who tries to shine
  dims his own light.
  He who defines himself
  can't know who he really is.
  He who has power over others
  can't empower himself.
  He who clings to his work
  will create nothing that endures.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Light, Empowering

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• You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe.

  Marion Blakey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Legacy

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• Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

  Robert Lembke

  Love, Doors, Bangs

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• Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

  Doug Larson

  Happiness, Being Happy, Stars

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• How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

  Homer

  Men, Feet, Feminist

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• If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Funny, Death, Party

  "As I Journey on: Meditations for Those Facing Death". Book by Cindy Rogers and Sharon Dardis, 2000.

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• Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Order

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• The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.

  Arthur Miller

  Mother, Father, Self

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.

  Alastair Humphreys

  Ambition, Half, Excitement

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• Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

  George Meredith

  Talking, Poetry Is

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• Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips

  Shannon Hoon

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• We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.

  Bob Proctor

  Dream, Goal, Way

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 31, 2014

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• Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.

  Margaret Prescott Montague

  Beauty, Falling In Love, Eye

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• You're after something - not a story, but a certain, exquisitely intense encounter with beauty - and the only way to find it is to tiptoe past the dragon's cave.

  William Finnegan

  Past, Dragons, Encounters

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A candy coloured clown they call the sandman
  Tiptoes into my room every night
  Just to sprinkle stardust and whisper;
  "Go to sleep, everything is alright"

  Roy Orbison

  Halloween, Sleep, Night

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• Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Melancholy, Misty

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• Living would be a terribly pedestrian business without the impatient ones. The seekers. Always searching for something new, something relevant to leave their mark on. Always on tiptoe, anticipating discovery. Such people find change as necessary as the air they breathe.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Change, Air, Discovery

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• The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.

  Amy Chua

  Daughter, Mother, Kids

  Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.

  Suzanne Collins

  Kissing, Two, Games

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.67, Scholastic Inc.

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• The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, Adventure, Mean

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