Heights Quotes

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

The more that you read,

the more things you will know.

The more that you learn,

the more places you'll go.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally,

socially and politically.

I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States,

and I should not object if it should gradually

terminate in the whole Union.

You can never quit.

Winners never quit,

and quitters never win

Ted Turner

We suffer from an incurable disease called hope.

Old minds are like old horses;

you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man,

with an ability to grasp the infinite,

to exist only for a day!

No,

no,

man was made for immortality.

If you want to succeed

you should strike out on new paths,

rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Never pick a fight with people

who buy ink by the barrel.

Few of us can stand prosperity.

Another man's, I mean.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

As a well

spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship,

I am disposed to endulge the professors of,

Christianity in the church,

that road to heaven which to them,

shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

The vegetable life does not content

itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed,

but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that,

if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves,

that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity;

that, at least one may replace the parent.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows

Ralph Marston

I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than

the chances I didn’t take at all.

Education is a weapon whose effect depends on

who holds it in his hands.

Americans are fond of equality in general,

and they constantly strive to make men equal.