High quotes

“Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.” Charlie Chaplin

“There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.” Henry Ford

“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” Martin Luther King

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.” Aristotle Onassis

“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.” Confucius

“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.” Og Mandino

“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.” Og Mandino

“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.” Antoine de Saint Exupery

“What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.” Sigmund Freud

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.” Ludwig van Beethoven

“I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.” Marilyn Monroe

“Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.” Phyllis Diller

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” Abraham Lincoln

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.” Abraham Lincoln

“The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.” Horace

“Philosophy is the highest music.” Plato

“The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.” Plato

“In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” Karl Marx

“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.” Stendhal

“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.” Aldous Huxley

“When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.” Lord Byron