I am happy that my career has been successful and I want to finish at the highest level possible.

If you want to know what’s wrong with higher education, this reversal of traditional university priorities — with social justice now at the top and scholarship lower on the totem pole — is a good place to start.

Trials help us detach ourselves from the earth; they make us look higher than this world.

I would say my determination is way higher than my smartness.

It’s not that I always had this impeccable voice. Some 15-18 years ago, I started noticing that I could not reach higher octaves.

The higher education system in these countries (US, Korea etc) has become like a theatre in which some people decided to stand to get a better view, promoting the others behind them to stand. Once enough people stand, everyone has to stand, which means no one is getting a better view, while everyone has become more uncomfortable.

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains

In more than 20 years I’ve spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude… men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

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.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I’m getting older and older.

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.

Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your mental powers, release your energies, and lift your life onto a higher plane.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.

If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road.

The Higher Power knows what to do and how to do it. Trust it.

I like feeling strong. It keeps my mental floor higher.

Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn’t?

As a human being, he may have moods and a will and personal aims; but as an artist, he is a man in a higher sense. He is a ‘collective man’—one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.