Heights Quotes

If you keep your eye on the profit,

you’re going to skimp on the product.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

For me,

it's like yesterday

I was driving the packages to the post office myself.

For everything you have missed,

you have gained something else,

and for everything you gain,

you lose something else.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Success isn't measured by

money or power or social rank

Success is measured by your

discipline and inner peace.

Each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Imperfection is beauty,

madness is genius,

and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

All I required to be

happy was friendship

and people I could admire

Here I stand,

I can do no other.

Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Everything around you that you call life

was made up by people that were no smarter than you.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Character,

not circumstances,

makes the man.

Only kings,

presidents,

editors,

and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

My humanity is bound up in yours,

for we can only be human together.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you,

speak the very truth,

as your life and conscience teach it,

and cheer the waiting,

fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

There are only two

lasting bequests we can

hope to give our children

One of these is roots,

the other, wings.

Lock up your libraries if you like;

but there is no gate,

no lock,

no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.