Heights Quotes

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

After two years at UCLA,

I decided to leave.

I was convinced that no amount of education

would help a black man get a job.

I walk in a space of gratitude. I'm so grateful to God for blessing me with an amazing family and the opportunity to do what I love

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The common question that gets asked in business is,

Why?

That’s a good question,

but an equally valid question is,

Why not?

Blessed are the flexible,

for they shall not be bent out of shape.

Be water, my friend.

None of us got where we are solely by pulling

ourselves up by our bootstraps.

Leadership is making decisions under pressure,

and living with the consequences.

I had to spend my life persuading my people

that what I was doing was the right thing.

I believe in the American dream and the power of education.

I want Amazon to have the heart and spirit

of a small company.

In giving freedom to the slave,

we assure freedom to the free

honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve.

We shall nobly save,

or meanly lose,

the last best hope of earth.

Look at how hard it was to get to where I am.

It doesn't make sense to give it up.

There is a blessed necessity by

which the interest of men is always driving them to the right;

and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation

whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,

and you allow him to do so whenever

he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose

and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

The most incomprehensible thing

about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The remarkable thing is,

we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace.