Lofty Quotes

214 quotes by 190 authors

Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called "mountaintop employments of… — Sterling W Sill
True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot… — Marvin J. Ashton
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line. — Walter Scott
No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the… — Edward Bernays
It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but… — Thomas Cole
He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height. — Quintus Curtius Rufus
But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is… — Edwin Percy Whipple
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and… — Eric Hoffer
Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just… — Richard Paul Evans
Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I view… — Anatoli Boukreev
When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions. — Louise Colet
Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the… — Miyamoto Musashi
Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his eyes. Onward! Onward!… — Swami Vivekananda
See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty talks! While the… — Swami Vivekananda
To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God. — Joseph Story
Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for… — Hernando Cortes
Holiness is not some lofty experience, unattainable except to those who can leap the stars, but it is rather a lowly experience, which lowly people… — Samuel Logan Brengle
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man… — William Hazlitt

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