Higher Quotes · Page 51

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

— Laurence J. Peter

I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the better the person, the greater the nation.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Real sorrow is incompatible with hope. No matter how great that sorrow may be, hope raises it one hundred cubits higher.

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.

— Edward Abbey

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

— Charles Caleb Colton

The most effective way to transform into higher consciousness is to pay attention in the present moment.

— Deepak Chopra

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

— Henry David Thoreau

What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per…

— Ludwig von Mises

I've found that when you can quickly knock out debt you get motivated because you see progress. Then you attack the other…

— Michelle Singletary

Picking on another person in their mind justifies and makes their stature higher. People do it interracially. It's amazing how every race,…

— Rib Hillis

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in…

— Mary Augusta Ward

It didn't matter if it was the Catholic Church or Episcopal Church or Presbyterian Church and it still doesn't today. I just…

— Lisa Rinna

“Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the…

— Roopleen

Being overweight and obesity are major risk factors for many chronic diseases for South Dakotans of all ages. When people are overweight…

— Mike Rounds

The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must…

— George W. Bush

What is difficult to understand is that without conscious effort, nothing is possible. Conscious effort is related to higher nature. My lower…

— Jeanne de Salzmann

If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible…

— J. W. N. Sullivan

When someone refuses to listen to you or others, there is one source or entity that he will listen to: Call it…

— David J. Lieberman

Women still need higher political representation and to be included at decision making tables in all issues in order for solutions that…

— Zainab Salbi

Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though…

— Carl Hart

This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists.…

— Manly Hall

Welfare mostly subsidizes people in poverty, helping few escape from it. In their hearts, most people who are poor would like to…

— Cal Thomas

He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge,…

— Henry George

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

— Hank Johnson

Charter schools have a far higher proportion of teachers who are not certified.

— Maggie Gallagher

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

— Deepak Chopra

I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is…

— Stephen Chow

From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher.

— Ai Yazawa

Believe in yourself, believe in something higher than yourself, be selfless, exercise, have great expectations and execute day by day.

— Eric Anthony

He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

— Rumi

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and…

— Andy Stern

Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the…

— Mason Cooley

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

— Queen Latifah

You can't go up when you focus on what is keeping you down. Let go of the chains and hold onto the…

— Anonymous

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

— Christie Hefner

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I was in higher secondary when I participated in 'Indian Idol.' I was also learning singing at the Suresh Wadekar Institute.

— Rahul Vaidya

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

— Samuel Johnson

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

— John Wycliffe