Heights Quotes

Avoid having your ego so close to your position

that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Hope is a good breakfast,

but it is a bad supper.

I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change.

I’m changing the things I cannot accept.

It's when children are 15,

16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor,

an engineer,

a politician or go to the Mars or moon.

That is the time they start having a dream,

and that's the time you can work on them.

You can help them shape their dreams.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious,

but the desire to reach hearts is wise.

Stand with anybody that stands right,

stand with him while he is right and part with him

when he goes wrong.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm,

even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.

The stock market is a device for transferring

money from the impatient to the patient.

The possession of knowledge does not kill

the sense of wonder and mystery.

There is always more mystery.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

They somehow already know

what you truly want to become.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

I know of no single formula for success.

But over the years,

I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal.

When angry, count to four;

when very angry, swear.

The great illusion is that we are what we own.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.