120 Feet On The Ground Quotes

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Famous Feet On The Ground Quotes

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. - Casey Kasem

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. — Casey Kasem

When you stand with your two feet on the ground, you will always keep your balance. — Lao Tzu

I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck. — Ann Landers

I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes. — Oprah Winfrey

It feels great to be on top of the world but the greatest feeling is when your feet are on the ground. — Felix Baumgartner

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. — Abraham Lincoln

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. — Theodore Roosevelt

Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach. — Mother Angelica

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet. — Unknown

Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man. — Antonio Machado

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm. — Lao Tzu

A wise man doesn’t see his foot on the ground, he watches his next step. — Filipino Proverbs

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction, and you will not have to worry about your feet. — Myles Munroe

Feet are also crucial to balance, another important element of stability. One key test in our movement assessment is to have our patients stand with one foot in front of the other and try to balance. — Peter Attia

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth. — Archimedes

Short Feet On The Ground Quotes

  • One may dance in the sky. But one must land on the earth. — Tibetan Proverbs
  • In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. — Lao Tzu
  • Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you. — Rumi
  • A bird that flies off the Earth and lands on an anthill is still on the ground. — African Proverbs
  • You can't leave a footprint that lasts if you're always walking on tiptoe. — Marion Blakey
  • A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. — George Santayana
  • Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. — Henry David Thoreau
  • Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
  • When the will is ready the feet are light. — Proverbs
  • When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get back up. — Kathleen McDonald

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Feet on the ground quote The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet.

Always Feet On The Ground Quotes

One of the biggest lessons is to keep your feet on the floor. Just keeping grounded and not really getting above yourself and always trying your best to be yourself. — Johnny Reid

You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change. — Renan Barao

Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground. — Eddie Marsan

Feet on the ground quote The greatest oak was once a little nut who held her ground.
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held her ground.

You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is. — George Cukor

I think about how much depends upon a best friend. Then you wake up in the morning you swing your legs out of bed and you put your feet on the ground and you stand up. You don't scoot to the edge of the bed and look down to make sure the floor is there. The floor is always there. Until it's not. — John Green

Keep Feet On The Ground Quotes

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. — Arthur Helps

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. — Abigail Van Buren

Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground. — Faraaz Kazi

Feet on the ground quote Don't ask God to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.
Don't ask God to guide your footsteps if you're not willing to move your feet.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground. — Theodore Roosevelt

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights. — Peace Pilgrim

I try to keep my feet on the ground. Even though I appreciate the fame and adoration, I remember once I used to pick cotton, and I felt like even then I was somebody. I have the same feet, hands and heart like everyone else. I'm just also blessed with a good voice. — Charley Pride

Feet on the ground quote Better to die on ones feet than to live on ones knees.
Better to die on ones feet than to live on ones knees.

If you can walk with your head in the clouds and keep your feet on the ground, you can make a million dollars in the NBA. — Gary Dornhoefer

Aim for a star, and keep your sights high! With a heart full of faith within, your feet on the ground and your eyes in the sky. — Helen Lowrie Marshall

Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground. — Gracie Allen

But how do you wait for heaven And who has that much time And how do you keep your feet on the ground When you know, that you were born, you were born to fly — Sara Evans

Foot On The Ground Quotes

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. — Marcel Proust

With all the infinite possibilities of spiritual life before you, do not settle down on a little patch of dusty ground at the mountain's foot in restful content. Be not content until you reach the mountain's summit. — J.R. Miller

Kicking leaves you momentarily on one foot, and for that moment you are in a very weak position. If you were to be swept off your feet, you would be finished. This is why lifting your feet off the ground is crazy. — Morihei Ueshiba

Feet on the ground quote Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure. — Deborah Tannen

I lay on the ground, but then I can't reach - I don't want to take my foot out of the tub - but I've got to call somebody because I've got to get a band-aid or something to stop the bleeding. — Danny Devito

Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another. — John Burroughs

Feet on the ground quote Be the type of person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, "Aww shit..
Be the type of person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, "Aww shit.... they're up"

Foot is superior to wing, because even when we have wings to fly in the sky, we still need feet so as not to crawl on the ground! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

People sometimes say we need to be really almost on a wartime footing if you want to change. Our whole economy is based on burning fossil fuels, which is taking CO2 out of the ground and putting it up into the air. — Elizabeth Kolbert

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter. — Elie Wiesel

Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love — Johnny Cash

Feet Off The Ground Quotes

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. — Calvin Trillin

In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on. — Elie Wiesel

Jack Tatum could hit a man so hard that it would lift both his feet off the ground. — Woody Hayes

Feet on the ground quote Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

How do I take a step? How do I lift my foot off the ground, move it through the air a little bit and then bring it down? I had to teach myself to walk again. — Jonah Lomu

When you are fifty, you're neither young nor old; you're just uninteresting. When you are sixty, and still dancing, you become something of a curiosity. And boy! if you hit seventy, and can still get a foot off the ground, you're phenomenal! — Ruth St. Denis

Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth. — Francesca Lia Block

Feet on the ground quote Your feet will take you where your heart is.
Your feet will take you where your heart is.

My husband and I don't worry about each other the way we might if we didn't have similar jobs. I sometimes get an email where he tells me he's heading off on a mission to do terrain avoidance 50 feet above the ground at 500 knots. And I just say, "Okay, have a good flight." — Julie Payette

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off. — Ringo Starr

Hope you're keeping the dust out of your eyes and your feet off the ground. — Jennifer Niven

The first plane ride was in a homemade glider my buddy and I built. Unfortunately we didn't get more than four feet off the ground, because it crashed. — Alan Shepard

Keep Your Feet On The Ground Quotes

It's tough trying to keep your feet on the ground, your head above the clouds, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball and your ear to the ground. — Proverbs

You can't depend on the exposure of a TV screen to keep your feet on the ground and your food tasting delicious. You've got to push yourself. — Gordon Ramsay

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment. The Root Of The Righteous — A. W. Tozer

Feet on the ground quote Be sure you put your feet int he right place, than stand firm.
Be sure you put your feet int he right place, than stand firm.

Look Toward the stars but keep your feet firmly on the ground. — Theodore Roosevelt

Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground. — Ferran Adria

Feet And Travel Quotes

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain

Feet on the ground quote I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step. — Thomas S. Monson

Every hundred feet the world changes — Roberto Bolano

Along your pathway of life you will observe that you are not the only traveler. There are others who need your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save. — Thomas S. Monson

Feet on the ground quote Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Though the path is plain and smooth for men of good will, he who walks it will not travel far, and will do so only with difficulty, if he does not have good feet: that is, courage and a persevering spirit. — John of the Cross

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret? — Peter Matthiessen

Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long since come to seem so much a part of Nature that we have grown to think of them as a feature of the landscape no less natural than rocks and trees. — Richard Le Gallienne

To take a journey of a thousand miles, you have to begin with the first step from the place where you stand; the romantic description of the journey and the things the body sees on the way and the description of the scenery are of no use unless you lift your foot and take the first step. — Vimala Thakar

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More Feet On The Ground Quotes

This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet. — Nina Simone

The moon and the stars are not above us, the earth is on the other side of our feet. — Moroccan Proverbs

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it. — Wilferd Peterson

Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose! — Richard P. Feynman

Leo Messi is a spectacular player, there is nobody else like him. I should not because I have suffered so much in training. I think he is the best forward at the moment and I think he will be so for many more years. He has his feet on the ground. — Carles Puyol

When there's not ten feet of snow on the ground I ride my bike down the streets of New York, and I literally hear two things out of car windows as cabs pass by me: They either yell, "Hey, dummy," or "Hey, Mayhem." — Dean Winters

And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on the ground where the wall had blasted apart. Harry grabbed Hermione's hand as they staggered and stumbled over stone and wood. 'No - no - no!' someone was shouting. 'No! Fred! No!' And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face. — J. K. Rowling

Help those who make mistakes; your feet walk on the same ground, and even if you possess the possibility to correct them, you have no right to censure them. — Chico Xavier

Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.' — Randy Pausch

I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground. — Ntozake Shange

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story. — Levon Helm

My rule is you want someone whos got both feet on the ground. An ideal girlfriend might be someone who works in the business and can understand what youre going through but is not an actor themselves - is willing to run lines with you but when you start acting crazy, they throw up their hands and take you for what you are and be accepting. — Wentworth Miller

On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground. — Shashi Tharoor

I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes. — Oprah Winfrey

I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak.I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground. — Umar

Maybe tomorrow is counting on me To learn my lessons today I'll start by taking a step at a time And stop throwing my blessings away I'll get myself up and I'll brush myself off And take back some of the pride that I've lost 'Cause you can't always keep your feet on the ground I guess we all learn the hard way and we all fall down — Bekka Bramlett

I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot of brothers who just make sure we have our feet on the ground, and my mom is a rock star. She is an amazing mother. — Kellan Lutz

A very good case can be made, on moral as well as economic grounds, for a system in which the individual is required to stand on his own feet, not to lean on the state for handouts. Character, resourcefulness, capacity are formed and developed in struggle with obstacles, not in waiting passively for benefits from outside. — William Henry Chamberlin

To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God. — Elizabeth Gilbert

But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more than ten years. If I close my eyes, however, I can again feel the stick in my right hand, the throttle in my left, the rudder bar beneath my feet. I can sense the freedom and the cleanliness and all the things which a pilot knows. — Saburo Sakai

Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of ground your feet were placed upon, guided by chalk marks, he would not see the same things you did. — Cornell Woolrich

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt. — Fletcher Knebel

Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks. — Abraham Lincoln

If I buy a Fiat Uno, I'll read that, for a man like me, a Ferrari was more suitable. If instead I buy a Ferrari, they'll write that I should have kept my feet on the ground and bought a Fiat. If I smile, I'm not serious. If I don't smile, I'm a rich sulker that doesn't enjoy having the most beautiful job in the world. — Mario Balotelli

I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. "Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him!" Giving that up was very difficult later on in life. — Mel Brooks

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people. — Mo Yan

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