Higher Quotes

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

Labor, Superior, Fruit

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein

Time, Knowledge, Mind

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

Women, Lows, Ah

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi

Justice, Conscience, Court

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great, Strong, Character

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Him, Youth, Hold

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

Sleep, Wife, Humility

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

Love, Greatest, Help

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

Good, Future, Nothing

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey

Yourself, Surround, Lift

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art, Heart, Hand

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

Music, Wisdom, Philosophy

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

Truth, Today, Tomorrow

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Yourself, Anybody, Hold

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Lao Tzu

Growth, Key, Awareness

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

Mean, Ambition, Idea

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Tony Robbins

Energy, Talent, Body

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao Tzu

Cannot, Sun, Less

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost

Life, Change, Education

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Theodore Roosevelt

Men, Live, Ideals

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine

Great, Humility, Wish

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack Obama

History, Simple, Same

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.
Mitt Romney

Family, Health, History

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

Music, Knowledge, Cannot

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

Far, Clown, Places

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher

God, Trials, Anvil

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.
Michelle Obama

Time, Health, Women

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Nathaniel Branden

Respect, Kindness, Others

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.
Jessica Savitch

Matter, Goals, Achieved

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