Heights Quotes

Opportunities don't happen.

You create them.

Every business is a living document

that needs to be improved.

Nothing can harm you

as much as your own thoughts unguarded.

You can kill a revolutionary,

but you can’t kill the revolution.

Acting is a collaboration between yourself and the world.

No matter what people

tell you,

words and ideas can

change the world.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me

with a sling shot.

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by

every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap

let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges;

let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs;

let it be preached from the pulpit,

proclaimed in legislative halls,

and enforced in courts of justice.

Someone is sitting in the

shade today because someone

planted a tree a long time ago.

A person who's happy will make others happy;

a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery.

Riches can all be lost,

but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled,

and it will bring you happiness again,

as long as you live.

I don't think of myself

as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good.

I think of myself as somebody

who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself,

and I had to make good.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged,

sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.

Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

The human body has two ends on it:

one to create with and one to sit on.

Sometimes people get their ends reversed.

When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

I always feel that until you take your last breath,

you're always growing.

Keep your eyes on the stars,

and your feet on the ground.

Much of the social history of the Western world

over the past three decades has involved replacing

what worked with what sounded good.

Be happy,

but never satisfied.

The right word may be effective,

but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives

and everything to do with the focus of our lives.