Heights Quotes

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. (Seneca)
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated. View quote
Horace Mann
A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. View quote
Steven Wright
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach. View quote
Jascha Heifetz
Am I a romantic? I've seen "Wuthering Heights" ten times. I'm a romantic. View quote
Johnny Depp
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Other heights in other lives, God willing. View quote
Robert Browning
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. View quote
Albert Camus
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity. View quote
Arthur Henderson
I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building. View quote
Kate Hudson
Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond. View quote
Anthony Anderson
There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers. View quote
Robert Jordan
Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality," said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. "Here's one," said the Master. "When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach. View quote
Anthony de Mello
When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king What he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight And he'll win the whole thing ‘fore he enters the ring There's no body to batter when your mind is your might So when you go solo you hold your own hand And remember that depth is the greatest of heights And if you know where you stand then you know where to land And if you fall it won't matter cuz you'll know that you're right. View quote
Fiona Apple
there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death. View quote
Karen Armstrong
It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights. (Pierre Stephen Robert Payne)
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy. View quote
David Hume
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. View quote
Lucretius
Men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from boyhood the steps of these studies and thus, nursed by the knowledge of many arts and sciences, having reached the heights of the holy ground of architecture. View quote
Vitruvius
If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. View quote
Laurence Olivier