The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water, So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.
— Thiruvalluvar
Dreamy Great Heights quotations
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
My height doesn't define my skill set.
To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights;
you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
Families are the compass that guide us.
They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.
When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.
Let us each day search from the scriptures and from the prophets….
The scriptures that are never read will never help us. If read, the words of God will nourish our souls and carry us to great heights in our endeavors.
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.
And the great spirit of darkness spread a shroud over me.
..everything was silent-everything. But upon the heights soughed the everlasting song, the voice of the air, the distant, toneless humming which is never silent.
The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.
The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy.
In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.
Skill development remains our priority.
We are blessed with a demographic dividend that can take us to great heights.
Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that a part of the job will be left undone.
What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.
Kurt Angle and Randy Orton were great guys to work with.
The Undertaker was great to work with, believe it or not, because of the height difference. But overall, my number one choice is Eddie Guerrero, and that's because without him, Rey Mysterio wouldn't be at the level that he was in WWE.
I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.
The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.
You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again.
We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.
Our human awareness is so powerful that even if we tap only a small part of it we can accomplish more that we ever thought possible. Using our complete potential, we can soar to the height where our accomplishments have great and lasting value for both ourselves and for future generations.
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
There is no such thing as a little country.
The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.
Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.
We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground;
(2) entangling ground; (3) temporising ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy.