Lofty Quotes

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.

— Walter Scott

A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

It's really hard to chase a lofty dream.

— Brett Young

I've always been a girl with lofty dreams... big dreams.

— Kim Zolciak-Biermann

I never had lofty dreams of doing important things.

— Karen Katz

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

— James Naismith

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

— Robert Browning

I set some lofty goals for myself and I think you have to.

— Tyrus

Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.

— Sophocles

The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will…

— Isaiah

From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

— John Muir

To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

— Samuel Smiles

What is lofty can be said in any language. What is mean should be said in none.

— Maimonides

Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.

— Mason Cooley

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

— Herman Melville

I am as one Who doth attempt some lofty mountain's height, And having gained what to the upcast eye The summit's point…

— Joanna Baillie

The Sixth Army, true to their oath and conscious of the lofty importance of their mission, have held their position to the…

— Friedrich Paulus

Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action…

— Jack Canfield

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the…

— Saul Alinsky

The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do…

— Khalil Gibran

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are…

— William E. Gladstone

“Aphorisms should be peaks – and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the…

— Anonymous

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Dare to conceive of greater things for yourself. Dare to see yourself as strong, confident, successful, and possessed of the patience and…

— Eric Butterworth

Even if you do no work that is particularly lofty or far-reaching, if you can shed mundane feelings, that is a great…

— Zicheng Hong

You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing,…

— Melissa Rosenberg

A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly…

— Lord Kelvin

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person…

— Plutarch

Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called…

— Sterling W Sill

We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that…

— William McDonough

Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the…

— Richard Holt Hutton

There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendour for our eyes: Far easier to condemn his injurers,…

— Michelangelo

But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned…

— Nicholas Metropolis

The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter…

— Abraham Isaac Kook

I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased…

— Paul Newman

The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial…

— Galt Niederhoffer

Invade me now, my ruthless friend, And make me cower in the dark. Remind me that I'm all alone And draw upon…

— Arthur C. Clarke