High quotes

“Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.” Charles Stanley

“Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic.” John Steinbeck

“To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.” Michael Jordan

“You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.” Michael Jordan

“But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.” Homer

“Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.” Homer

“There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.” George Harrison

“It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.” Vincent Van Gogh

“Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.” Albert Schweitzer

“The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.” Albert Schweitzer

“I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.” Donald Trump

“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.” Rabindranath Tagore

“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.” Oprah Winfrey

“There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.” Virginia Woolf

“No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.” Marcus Aurelius

“Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.” Richard Bach

“Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.” Robert Browning

“In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.” Ambrose Bierce

“Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.” Ambrose Bierce

“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.” Ambrose Bierce

“Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.” Ambrose Bierce

“I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.” George Smith Patton