Heights Quotes

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

So long as the memory of

certain beloved friends

lives in my heart,

I shall say that

life is good.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

And if you can’t help them,

at least don’t hurt them.

Among the friends of Union,

there is great diversity of sentiment

and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

When I see children,

I see the face of God.

That's why I love them so much.

That's what I see.

To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome.

You can't connect the dots looking forward;

you can only connect them looking backward.

If you don't love it,

you're going to fail.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank

and file has already earned my contempt.

He has been given a large brain by mistake,

since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Courage,

my friends;

it is never too late to seek a better life.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one

has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Community protection begins with

ordinary citizens taking responsibility.

Know from whence you came.

If you know whence you came,

there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

A country is not a rock.

It is the people who make a country.

You may think it was a very little thing,

and in these days it seems to me like a trifle,

but it was a most important incident in my life.

I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy,

had earned a dollar in less than a day;

that by honest work, I had earned a dollar.

I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

It is only through labor and painful effort,

by grim energy and resolute courage,

that we move on to better things.

I’ve always been famous for doing my thing,

and I’m not about to stop.

Man is the only animal that blushes

or needs to.

Show class,

have pride,

and display character.