Higher Quotes

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter

Education, Grade, Prejudices

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst

Love, Tax, Accident

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.
Robert Kiyosaki

Fear, Conquer, Teach

There is no higher value in our society than integrity.
Arlen Specter

Society, Integrity, Value

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Wendell Phillips

Courage, Moral, Bravery

The possible ranks higher than the actual.
Martin Heidegger

Possible, Actual, Ranks

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.
Rick Warren

Power, Saying, Jesus

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
Kevin Spacey

Success, Death, Successful

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
Alanis Morissette

Money, Making, Movie

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius

Love, Give, Law

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
Erykah Badu

Religion, Self, Words

In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
Georg Cantor

Art, Question, Value

The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
Paramahansa Yogananda

Freedom, Creation, Angel

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold

Justice, Important, Liberty

Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.
Marco Rubio

Government, Hard, Trying

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

End, Political, Liberty

According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.
Conan O'Brien

Live, Here, Chance

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Compassion, Genuine, Feels

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
Elizabeth I

Religion, God, Leave

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.
Thomas Malthus

Mankind, Classes, Histories

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
David Hockney

Love, Another, Actually

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno

True, Others, Level

There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.
Kenny Loggins

Life, Love, Trust

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
Brigham Young

Remember, Sure, Sign

Through their own actions, customers can hold companies responsible to higher standards of social responsibility. Through collective action, they can leverage their dollars to combat the force of those investors who myopically pursue profits at the expense of the rest of society.
Simon Mainwaring

Society, Through, Social

Move your personal investments and retirement funds to socially responsible investment (SRI) funds that support only those corporations that uphold higher standards of behavior. Returns on SRI funds are usually equal to, if not better than, many of the well-known traditional mutual funds.
Simon Mainwaring

Personal, Support, Move

It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.
Simon Mainwaring

Change, Time, Government

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
Jim Henson

Time, Remember, Working

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.
William Ellery Channing

Life, End, Amused

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