Definition of Lofty

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Definition of Lofty
	Lofty Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high. Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty. Related Definitions: Bearing, By, Character, Characterized, Dignity, Elevated, Exalted, Fig, Great, Haughty, Having, Height, High, In, Language, Lifted, Noble, Pride, Rank, Spirit, Stately, Towering, Up

Lofty Quotations

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo da Vinci

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

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Allen

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
Emma Goldman

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.
Hernando Cortes

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.
Hernando Cortes

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
Horace

Lofty Translations

lofty in Dutch is hoog, verheven
lofty in Finnish is korkea
lofty in Italian is elevato, patetico
lofty in Latin is sublimis
lofty in Portuguese is alto, elevado
lofty in Spanish is alto, encumbrado

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