Heights Quotes

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Failure is just a lesson,

not the end of the story.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth

more than a college education.

You don’t take a photograph,

you make it.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

I believe in being an innovator,

not an imitator.

The price one pays for pursuing truth is loneliness.

Desire is the starting

point of all achievement,

not a hope, not a wish,

but a keen pulsating desire

which transcends everything.

Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

For somehow this is tyranny’s disease: to trust no friends.

Trust is good,

but control is better.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man

for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of,

and scoffer at, religion.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task

remaining before us, that from these honored dead

we take increased devotion to that cause for

which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Once we accept our limits,

we go beyond them.

It’s not about being the fastest,

it’s about being consistent.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action,

and we have trusted only to rhetoric.

If we are really to be a great nation,

we must not merely talk;

we must act big.

I don’t go by the rule book;

I lead from the heart.

You can’t have a better tomorrow

if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

History is the version of past events

that people have decided to agree upon.

People judge you by your performance,

so focus on the outcome.