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  • 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.

    'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)
  • My biggest fear, I think falling from a great height. If I want to keep myself awake at night I imagine I'm on the top of the North or South Tower in 9/11, wondering whether I'm going to be burnt to death or I'm going to jump. And I think I would burn to death. And yet I'm impressed by the fact that hundreds didn't.

    Fall   Night   Thinking  
    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

    Isaac Asimov (2010). “The End of Eternity”, p.246, Macmillan
  • The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

    Greatness   Mind   Height  
  • For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

    New Year   Years   Height  
  • When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained.

  • I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

    Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.36, Harper Collins
  • Skill development remains our priority. We are blessed with a demographic dividend that can take us to great heights.

    Twitter post from Jun 8, 2014
  • Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

    Boys   People   Singing  
  • If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.

    Andy Andrews (2004). “The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

    "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.
  • Whatever be the complex situations, the Indian team under Ganguly has moved to great heights. The fact of the matter is that Ganguly is determined to stay focused.

    Team   Height   Matter  
  • But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without someone buoying them up.

    Moving   People   Needs  
    Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.198, Egmont UK
  • "Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

    Life   Home   Height  
    Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we follow that advice we shall have to close our Bible and desert its teachings. The New Testament is a polemic book almost from beginning to end ... It is when men have felt compelled to take a stand against error that they have risen to the really great heights in the celebration of the truth

    Book   Teaching   Men  
  • To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

    Real   Mean   Names  
    Chinua Achebe (2011). “The Education of a British-Protected Child”, p.67, Penguin UK
  • Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

    Richard Paul Evans (2014). “Richard Paul Evans: The Complete Walk Series eBook Boxed Set: The Walk, Miles to Go, Road to Grace, Step of Faith, Walking on Water”, p.504, Simon and Schuster
  • I was shown a fledgling learning to fly. It's first efforts were very feeble. But as it used its wings more and more, they became stronger until it found the freedom of flight and was able to soar to great heights and fly great distance without any effort. I heard the words: Faith comes with practice. Live by faith until it becomes rocklike unshakable, and find the true freedom of the spirit.

  • We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

  • Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

  • Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great height, there is only one possible place to land: on the ground-the ground of truth. And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.

    Spiritual   Fall   Loss  
    FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jul 24, 2015
  • 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.

    Soul   Each Day   Height  
  • The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.

    Kerri Strug (1996). “Heart of Gold”, p.41, Taylor Trade Publishing
  • Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

  • He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height

    Dark   Night   Sea Breeze  
    Gustave Flaubert (1991). “Early Writings”, p.56, U of Nebraska Press
  • In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.

    Fall   Greek   Tragedy  
  • The Sappers really need no tribute from me; their reward lies in the glory of their achievement. The more science intervenes in warfare, the more will be the need for engineers in field armies; in the late war there were never enough Sappers at any time. Their special tasks involved the upkeep and repair of communications; roads, bridges, railways, canals, mine sweeping. The Sappers rose to great heights in World War II and their contribution to victory was beyond all calculations.

  • I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

  • The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

    Rocks   Sea   Mexico  
    Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.27
  • It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence.

    "A Calendar of Wisdom" by Leo Tolstoy, April 30.
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