These high quotes will inspire you. High, great, or greater than normal, in quantity, size, or intensity or of great vertical extent.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging high quotes, high sayings, and high proverbs.
Best High Quotes
- “There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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“On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
- “As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me.” ~ Peace Pilgrim
- “Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther.” ~ Paul Biya
- “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.” ~ Eileen Caddy
- “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” ~ Immanuel Kant
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“A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” ~ Laozi
- “Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.” ~ Sai Baba
- “The higher the better. It’s more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.” ~ Christian Louboutin
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“There is no god higher than truth.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.” ~ Louis Nizer
- “The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God” ~ Yann Martel
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“The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.” ~ Confucius
- “The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.” ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- “Life isn’t a race to win, it’s a school for our higher education.” ~ Guy Finley
- “The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.” ~ Charles Stross
- “Friends should be chosen by a higher principle of selection than any worldly one. They should be chosen for character, for goodness, for truth and trustworthiness, because they have sympathy with us in our best thoughts and holiest aspirations, because they have community of mind in the things of the soul.” ~ Hugh Black
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“The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his ass.” ~ Thomas Watson, Jr.
- “Already were seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.” ~ David Malpass
- “One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.” ~ Margaret Heffernan
- “Higher calling matters. When you care so deeply about the why-why you’re doing what you’re doing-then and only then are you operating in a way that allows you to overcome the obstacles.” ~ Dave Ramsey
- “In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality — and is free. Ten years ago the government tried to impose small fees. There was a national student strike and the government backed down. High tuition is not an economic necessity, as is easy to show, but a debt trap is a good technique of indoctrination and control. And resisting this makes good sense.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.” ~ David Josiah Brewer
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“It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.” ~ Francisco J. Ayala
- “Products with higher user engagement have the potential to grow faster than their rivals.” ~ Nir Eyal
- “Living a lie – pretending everything is fine when we are
actually discontented – is hard work and, in the long run, even bad for our health. We pay a high price
for compromising on this honesty – and neglecting ourselves. Finding our inner passion, our mission
in life, and connecting with who we really are, our spiritual being or our higher self – this is the key to success and fulfilment. Our ‘soul’ purpose is our sole purpose in life.” ~ Kristiane Backer - “Consciously paying more for a stock than its calculated value – in the hope that it can soon be sold for a still-higher price – should be labelled speculation” ~ Warren Buffett
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“Once you think bigger than yourself then the cause becomes the issue if you think on a higher plain you can come together to work on our problems.” ~ Chuck D
- “Faced with the immensity of the universe, Job realized that there are limits to man’s rationalizing, that we cannot find where the cloud of sorrow starts, that all our boasted knowledge is but an island in the vast ocean of mystery, and as the island of knowledge grows larger, the shore line of mystery becomes longer. At the end of his wits, he surrendered in trust to a Higher Wisdom.” ~ Ralph Washington Sockman
- “Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “However steep or ramshackle they may be, don’t ever despise the stairs which take you up to higher levels!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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“Listening to music as preparation or background for your work brings you into a creative mood… choose one type of music to calm down, another to reach a higher energy level, depending on the artwork you are doing.” ~ Nita Leland
- “You know that the population is of this planet is now ten times greater than it was in the ages preceding capitalism.; you know that all men today enjoy a higher standard of living than your ancestors did before the age of capitalism. But how do you know that you are the one out of ten who would have lived in the absence of capitalism? The mere fact that you are living today is proof that capitalism has succeeded, whether or not you consider your own life very valuable.” ~ Ludwig von Mises
- “The higher the heel, the more drastic it can get. But I do need heels to perform, which is strange. I can’t perform in flats because I’ve built up this…I don’t know, this sexual side that I find myself moving and getting into the music more when I’m feeling a little more feminine.” ~ Sarah Barthel
- “I place a higher value on work ethic than talent, because, in certain areas, you just need to cast, you need to cast actors with talent, you need to hire directors with talent, but I’ve worked with very talented people who have a poor work ethic, and the outcome is less desirable than people who are less talented and have an incredible work ethic.” ~ Damon Lindelof
- “Many politicians in the West cling to the notion of a partnership with Russia. They want to include [Vladimir] Putin, make compromises and constantly negotiate new deals with him. But history has taught us that the longer we pursue appeasement and do nothing, the higher the price will be later on. Dictators don’t ask “Why?” before they seize even more power. They ask: “Why not?”” ~ Garry Kasparov
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“The country is only as strong as its journalism – that’s the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.” ~ Scott Pelley
- “Having a higher purpose is more than just about profits. You actually end up making more profits in the long run because employees really are a lot more engaged and customers see the higher purpose in the company.” ~ Tony Hsieh
- “Thanks to my computer, I have now achieved a much higher state of disorganization.” ~ Ashleigh Brilliant
- “Redeem the time. Redeem the unread vision of a higher dream.” ~ T. S. Eliot
- “Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these `higher’ advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection’s causal mechanism: differential reproductive success of individuals.” ~ Stephen Jay Gould
- “When one sees that everything exists as an illusion, one can live in a higher sphere than ordinary man.” ~ Gautama Buddha
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“The will to incessant creation is vulgar, betraying jealousy, envy, and ambition. Assuming that you are something, there is really nothing that you need to do-and yet you do a great deal. Above the “productive” man there is still a higher type.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers. It is reptile and sensual, and perhaps cannot be wholly expelled; like the worms which, even in life and health, occupy our bodies. Possibly we may withdraw from it, but never change its nature. I fear that it may enjoy a certain health of its own; that we may be well, yet not pure.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “The foot of the heavenly ladder, which we have got to mount in order to reach the higher regions, has to be fixed firmly in every-day life, so that everybody may be able to climb up it along with us. When people then find that they have got climbed up higher and higher into a marvelous, magical world, they will feel that that realm, too, belongs to their ordinary, every-day life, and is, merely, the wonderful and most glorious part thereof.” ~ E. T. A. Hoffmann
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“I judge the people and the nations by their ideals; the higher the ideals, the better the person, the greater the nation.” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “If you ever meet a higher being, do not worship it; only try to be its friend! Worship is primitiveness and no higher and developed being likes worshipping!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo.” ~ Milan Kundera
- “Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of “God” to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers of God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is not nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines.” ~ Sigmund Freud
- “No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the interests of the right of nations to self-determination.” ~ Vladimir Lenin
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“I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Women are “hypergamous.” This means they seek men of higher status than themselves. Even the most ardent heterosexual feminist only can love someone more powerful than she. Needless to say the higher she rises, the slimmer the pickings.” ~ Henry Makow
- “If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body.” ~ J. C. Kumarappa
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“Russia will always remember the contribution [of King Fahd] in the development of Russian-Saudi relations, which in recent years were raised to a qualitatively higher level.” ~ Vladimir Putin
- “The most absurd public opinion polls are those on taxes. Now, if there is one thing we know about taxes, it is that people do not want to pay them. If they wanted to pay them, there would be no need for taxes. People would gladly figure out how much of their money that the government deserves and send it in. And yet we routinely hear about opinion polls that reveal that the public likes the tax level as it is and might even like it higher. Next they will tell us that the public thinks the crime rate is too low, or that the American people would really like to be in more auto accidents.” ~ Llewellyn Rockwell
- “There can be no higher enjoyment found in this world that is found in pulling souls out of the fire and bringing them to Christ.” ~ Charles Grandison Finney
