98 High Road Quotes

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Famous High Road Quotes

I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded. — Mia Farrow

Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service. — Sathya Sai Baba

When someone is rude, keep a smile on your face. when you stay on the high road. — Joel Osteen

The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find. — Mencius

The middle path is the way to wisdom — Rumi

I suggest taking the high road and have a little sence of humour and let things roll off your back. I think that's very important. — Sally Ride

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. — C. S. Lewis

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction — John Bunyan

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. - Seneca

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. — Seneca

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. - Seneca The Elder

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. — Seneca The Elder

In everything the middle road is best. — Plautus

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take the one with a heart. — Lao Tzu

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction. — Margaret Thatcher

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. - Terry Goodkind

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. — Terry Goodkind

The middle course is the best. — Cleobulus

Short High Road Quotes

  • The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive. — Robert Frost
  • The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision. — John C. Maxwell
  • The road to hell is strewn with roses. — Mexican Proverbs
  • My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road. — Shahid Khan
  • Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third. — Mahmoud Darwish
  • Remember, when life's path is steep, to keep your mind even. — Horace
  • On the straight and narrow path, there are simply no corners to be cut. — Neal A. Maxwell
  • We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. — Booker T. Washington

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High road quote Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road. Turn around.
Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road. Turn around.

Take The High Road Quotes

All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie. — Paula Abdul

Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible. — Bruce Lee

I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road. — Aziz Ansari

High road quote The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

Always take the high road. — John C. Maxwell

I've lost a lot. I've lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don't think there's ever too steep a price for doing the right thing. — Gabrielle Union

Take the high road; it's far less crowded. — Warren Buffett

High road quote Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.
Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.

When you are committed to doing what’s right, you are sowing seeds for God’s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required. — Joel Osteen

My best life advice:Take the high road.No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road.You will never regret it. — Tim Gunn

Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run. — Jeremy Piven

We must not concentrate overmuch upon our feelings. Do not spend too much time feeling your own pulse taking your own spiritual temperature, do not spend too much time analyzing your feelings. That is the high road to morbidity. — Martyn

Inspirational Quotes

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly - Paulo Coelho

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho

High road quote It's your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
It's your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. — Helen Keller

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

High road quote No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.

If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle

Taking The High Road Quotes

Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there. — Phil McGraw

Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired. — Sandra Bullock

Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road. — Augusten Burroughs

High road quote Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that, whatsoe'er the way Each takes in this high matter, all may move Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day. — William Wordsworth

The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road. — George W. Bush

A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves. — Daniel H. Pink

High road quote Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations.

Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road. — Jodi Kantor

In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you go to the wrong college, you take the wrong job. Any of these things could really get you in trouble down the road. Or in your mind anyway. You're afraid to make any move, it's paralyzing. — Meghan Daum

When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool. — Anita Roddick

It took a lot of courage to take the high road, but I would rather be significant with six million people watching a show with meaning, than everyone watching a show with no meaning. — Oprah Winfrey

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More High Road Quotes

When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low. When resentment rides high, but emotion won't grow...and we're changing our ways, taking different roads. Love will tear us apart. — Ian Curtis

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. — Max Born

In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost. — Maurice Strong

Do not follow where the path may lead. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude. — Sri Aurobindo

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory. — Molly Ivins

Everyone asks me 'how it feels to fly.' It feels like riding in a high powered automobile, minus bumping over the rough roads, continually signaling to clear the way and keeping a watchful on the speedometer to see that you do not exceed the speed limit and provoke the wrath of the bicycle policeman or the covetous constable. — Harriet Quimby

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know. — Henry Lawson

As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere. — Madeleine Albright

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. — Hesiod

The high road's the only road I know. Let's keep on that way. — Jim Harbaugh

Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic can scarcely lose its liberty from any other cause than that of anarchy, to which a contempt of the laws is the high-road. — Alexander Hamilton

The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it — Brian Tracy

Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy. — Martin Luther

Those who travel the high road of humility are not troubled by heavy traffic. — Alan K. Simpson

Against my better judgment I feel certain that somewhere very near here—the first house down the road, maybe—there's a good poet dying, but also somewhere very near here somebody's having a hilarious pint of pus taken from her lovely young body, and I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight. — J. D. Salinger

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. — Samuel Johnson

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night. — Matt Cameron

Ascend, my brothers, ascend eagerly. Let your hearts' resolve be to climb. Listen to the voice of the one who says: 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of our God' (Isa. 2:3), Who makes our feet to be like the feet of the deer, 'Who sets us on the high places, that we may be triumphant on His road' (Hab. 3:19). — John Climacus

But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars. — William Croswell Doane

The road to success is a zigzag, first pointing this way and then that. If we start with high intention, then magic and coincidence will guide us there despite our lack of knowledge about what lies ahead. — Susan Collins

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy. — Clarence Thomas

Climb the steep Cold Mountain way Roads to Cold Mountain are many and never ending The valleys are long and deep, the peaks piled high The streams are wide, the grass is thick The moss is slippery though there is no rain The pines sigh though there is no wind Who can escape the snares of the world And come to sit with me among the white clouds? — Hanshan

I remember my mentor once said, "The low road is crowded. The high road is wide open. So let's try to take the high road." I think that people are hungry for content that enriches and expires. You can entertain people while still expanding their horizons. You don't have to have it be a race to the bottom with reality television. — Jason Silva

This is interesting. Researchers have found that people who drive drunk are more dangerous on the road than drivers who are high on marijuana. Don't get too excited. It's mostly because the drivers using marijuana are just sitting in the Taco Bell drive-through. — Jimmy Fallon

I will say that the high road can get so high that you can get a nose bleed, in which case you have to get off the high road. — Tim Gunn

The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are. — L. Ron Hubbard

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