Heights Quotes

The mystic cords of memory,

stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to

every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land,

will yet swell the chorus of the Union,

when again touched,

as surely they will be,

by the angels of our nature.

Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world.

If you do so,

you are insulting yourself.

Books were my pass to personal freedom.

I learned to read at age three,

and soon discovered there was a whole world,

to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Without leaps of imagination,

or dreaming,

we lose the excitement of possibilities.

Dreaming,

after all,

is a form of planning.

I was willing to accept

what I couldn't change.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to

make anything out of my early life.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

If a man can...

make a better mousetrap,

the world will make a beaten,

path to his door.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth

more than a college education.

Desire is the starting

point of all achievement,

not a hope, not a wish,

but a keen pulsating desire

which transcends everything.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers.

This is a cruel libel,

even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

When you have got an elephant by

the hind legs and he is trying to run away,

it's best to let him run.

Almost everything will work again

if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation

will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Love liberates.

It doesn’t bind.

On Thanksgiving

I will stop to give thanks

that my family is

safe and healthy, especially

because I realize that,

following the tragedies

of this year, it is all too

real a possibility that they

might not have been.

Knowing is not enough;

we must apply.

Willing is not enough;

we must do.

Whoever is careless with

the truth in small matters

cannot be trusted with

important matters.