Higher Quotes
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.
And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity.
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.
You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.
The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things.
God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.
Driving by my ambitions, desire higher positions, to see eternally and my mission, to be more than just a rap musician.
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.
We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
After a while, you can't get any higher. It's like your head is in a wind tunnel - everything is vibrating.
As your bodybuilding aims become higher, obviously you have to work harder, until, believe it or not, you are performing from 20-30 sets of both biceps and triceps three workouts per week.
I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.
Outside and above the mind there is the play of a consciousness which is lighted by the higher Truth, but man is not conscious of it and of that he has to be conscious.
You can't have it both ways. You can't have both free will and a benevolent higher power who protects you from yourself.
"We liked it" or "I didn't like it" people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people!
My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.
I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.
The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.
There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.
We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.
Via the squares on the chessboard, the Indians explain the movement of time and the age, the higher influences which control the world and the ties which link Chess with the human soul
Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.
If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.
The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.
The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.
It is those people who know that they are right because some outside or higher power conveys the conviction to them who do the great damage in the world.
The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.
Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.
The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
The sole purpose of marketing is to sell more to more people, more often and at higher prices. There is no other reason to do it.
If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.
God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.
Disorder can play a critical role in giving birth to new, higher forms of order.
Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
Looking for the meaning of life, one man can discover the order of the universe. To discover the truth, to achieve. a higher spiritual state, that is the true meaning of ninja.
It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.
From a private gentlewoman you have made me first a marchioness, then a queen; and, as you can raise me no higher in the world, you are now sending me to be a saint in Heaven.