Heights Quotes

Unless you choose to do great things with it,

it makes no difference how much you are rewarded,

or how much power you have.

The present is the ever

moving shadow that divides

yesterday from tomorrow.

In that lies hope.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind

as a great and sudden change.

Do the thing we fear,

and death of fear is certain.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The occasion is piled high with difficulty,

and we must rise with the occasion.

As our case is new,

so we must think anew and act anew.

Culture and family matter as much as economics.

You make 'em,

I amuse 'em.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

When you reach the

end of your rope,

tie a knot in it and

hang on.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Don’t follow the crowd,

let the crowd follow you.

He who has health,

has hope;

and he who has hope,

has everything.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Classic.

A book which people praise and don't read.

All of my best decisions in business and

in life have been made with heart, intuition, guts...

not analysis.

The process is more important than the outcome.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine,

should any ever do so,

it is my intention to do all in my power to

make her happy and contented;

and there is nothing I can imagine that would

make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I counted everything.

I counted the steps to the road,

the steps up to church,

the number of dishes and silverware I washed...

anything that could be counted,

I did.

The time is near at hand which must determine

whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.