Heights Quotes

When a person cannot deceive himself

the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Defeat is a state of mind;

no one is ever defeated until

defeat has been accepted as a reality.

The thing you fear most has no power.

Your fear of it is what has the power.

Facing the truth really will set you free.

Art is never finished,

only abandoned.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,

but the parent of all others.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective Election and power are.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.

It is the only thing.

We are going to build a wall.

Old minds are like old horses;

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

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,

it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope,

and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Once you learn that,

you'll never be the same again.

I talked and talked of everything

I know about the white man's inhuman treatment of the Negro.

In all my years of baseball,

I have always expected to be traded.

I never liked the idea.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths,

but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I don't want to be a part of any club

that would have me as a member.

If there is not the war,

you don't get the great general;

if there is not a great occasion,

you don't get a great statesman;

if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace,

no one would have known his name.

The secret of ugliness

consists not in irregularity,

but in being uninteresting.