| "When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established." »Norman Vincent Peale |
| "Leadership is not magnetic personality--that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not 'making friends and influencing people'--that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." »Peter Drucker |
| "What you love is a sign from your higher self of what you are to do." »Sanaya Roman |
| "Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees." »Swedish Proverb |
| "There is no religion higher than the truth." »H Hahn Blavatsky |
| "The higher your station, the less your liberty." »Sallust |
| "The higher the buildings, the lower the morals." »Noel Coward |
| "Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| "No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast." »W. S. Gilbert |
| "Many things have fallen only to rise higher." »Seneca |
| "Faith is a higher faculty than reason." »Henry Christopher Bailey |
| "Music is a higher revelation than philosophy." »Ludwig van Beethoven |
| "There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher." »Victor Hugo |
| "Nurture your mind with great thoughts, For you will never go any higher that you think..." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself." »Henry Ward Beecher |
| "Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." »William Faulkner |
| "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." »Conan Doyle |
| "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." »Norman Mailer |
| "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices." »Laurence J. Peter |
| "Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals" »Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| "There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there." »Albert Einstein |
| "I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one." »Horace Mann |
| "He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss." »Niccolo Machiavelli |
| "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." »Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself." »Joel Hawes |
| "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| "Higher beings from outer space may not want to tell us the secrets of life, because we're not ready. But maybe they'll change their tune after a little torture." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "We face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its costs in things natural, wild, and free." »Aldo Leopold |
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