56+ Cullen Hightower Quotes On Friendship, Education And Culture

Cullen Hightower was an American motivational speaker and author, best known for his books on leadership and personal development. He was a popular speaker and consultant, and was the recipient of numerous awards for his work in the field of personal and professional development. He was also a sought-after lecturer, appearing on television and radio programs, and delivering keynote addresses at conferences and events around the world. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Cullen Hightower on leadership, friendship, education.

Top 10 Cullen Hightower Quotes

1. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
2. Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
3. After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.
4. We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
5. The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.
6. We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
7. The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.
8. The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.
9. A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
10. Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.

Cullen Hightower Short Quotes

• Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
• When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
• Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.
• Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
• A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.
• Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.
• Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance
• Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.
• Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.
• Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Cullen Hightower Quotes About Talk

Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. — Cullen Hightower

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists. — Cullen Hightower

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue they're called humorists. — Cullen Hightower

Cullen Hightower Famous Quotes And Sayings

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. — Cullen Hightower

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. — Cullen Hightower

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do. — Cullen Hightower

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American? — Cullen Hightower

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. — Cullen Hightower

Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us. — Cullen Hightower

Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one. — Cullen Hightower

If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it. — Cullen Hightower

Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated. — Cullen Hightower

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos. — Cullen Hightower

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises. — Cullen Hightower

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else. — Cullen Hightower

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth. — Cullen Hightower

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other. — Cullen Hightower

When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on. — Cullen Hightower

A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter. — Cullen Hightower

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. — Cullen Hightower

Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe. — Cullen Hightower

It's hard to see a halo when you're looking for horns. — Cullen Hightower

Strangers are what friends are made of. — Cullen Hightower

Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity. — Cullen Hightower

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done. — Cullen Hightower

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers. — Cullen Hightower

We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little. — Cullen Hightower

A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle. — Cullen Hightower

We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message. — Cullen Hightower

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own. — Cullen Hightower

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends. — Cullen Hightower

A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected. — Cullen Hightower

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance. — Cullen Hightower

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it. — Cullen Hightower

Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't. — Cullen Hightower

The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to. — Cullen Hightower