These height quotes will inspire you. Height measurement of how tall a person or thing is or the most intense part or period of something.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging height quotes, height sayings, and height proverbs.
Best Height Quotes
- “Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.” ~ Anthony Anderson
- “There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.” ~ Jascha Heifetz
- “Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.” ~ Peace Pilgrim
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“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold
- “A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths.” ~ Steven Wright
- “The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success.” ~ R. Kelly
- “Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.” ~ Richard Paul Evans
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“The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.” ~ Kerri Strug
- “You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.” ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you’re not afraid of heights.” ~ Gavin DeGraw
- “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” ~ Robert Frost
- “I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.” ~ Cyrano de Bergerac
- “Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.” ~ Calvin Harris
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“Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts.” ~ Robert Browning
- “The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.” ~ Juanita M. Kreps
- “Love from within, be determined and let your self-confidence take you to heights you never experienced before.” ~ Arsi Nami
- “The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.” ~ Phillips Brooks
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“All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.” ~ Casey Stengel
- “I like normal stuff people fear – like spiders and heights. I’m frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.” ~ Haley Joel Osment
- “Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.” ~ Novalis
- “Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.” ~ George Chapman
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“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.” ~ Jean Houston
- “From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I’m five foot one and I feel feminine being small.” ~ Alanna Ubach
- “In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.” ~ William Ames
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“I can tell when men are threatened by my height.” ~ Allison Janney
- “Censorship is the height of vanity.” ~ Martha Graham
- “I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.” ~ Allison Janney
- “A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” ~ Horace Mann
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“Am I a romantic? I’ve seen ‘Wuthering Heights’ ten times. I’m a romantic.” ~ Johnny Depp
- “People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.” ~ Saint Augustine
- “The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “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.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance” ~ Albert Einstein
- “I failed to make the chess team because of my height.” ~ Woody Allen
- “No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.” ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- “The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.” ~ Pliny the Elder
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“Height gives you the initiative.” ~ Adolph Malan
- “We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us” ~ Ruth St. Denis
- “You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.” ~ Edwin Louis Cole
- “I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.” ~ Leni Riefenstahl
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“The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I’m not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.” ~ Kate Hudson , Building height quotes
- “If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.” ~ Jean Cocteau
- “Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.” ~ Max Beckmann
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“That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.” ~ Adlai E. Stevenson
- “Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.” ~ Gamaliel Bailey
- “Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America’s proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.” ~ Theodore C. Sorensen
- “You see, if the height of the mercury [barometer] column is less on the top of a mountain than at the foot of it (as I have many reasons for believing, although everyone who has so far written about it is of the contrary opinion), it follows that the weight of the air must be the sole cause of the phenomenon, and not that abhorrence of a vacuum, since it is obvious that at the foot of the mountain there is more air to have weight than at the summit, and we cannot possibly say that the air at the foot of the mountain has a greater aversion to empty space than at the top.” ~ Blaise Pascal , Mountain height quotes
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“To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.” ~ Jean Genet
- “And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.” ~ Irving Langmuir
- “Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.” ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
- “Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.” ~ Barack Obama
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“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.” ~ Brad Henry
- “We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.” ~ Maria Mitchell
- “Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.” ~ Fredrik Bajer
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“If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.” ~ Roger Milla
- “To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!” ~ Denis Diderot
- “Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.” ~ Antony Hewish
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“The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.” ~ Edward Burnett Tylor
- “Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.” ~ P. G. Wodehouse
- “Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home” ~ Edvard Grieg
