Greater Heights Quotes

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Rosalynn Carter

Motivational, Leadership, People

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Inspirational, Change, Leadership

"Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, (p. 101), 1989.

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There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

Michael Bassey

Dream, Distance, Climbing

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You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights.

Brian Tracy

Letting Go, Self, Mind

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You have to be burning with "an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right." If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Steve Jobs

Motivational, Leadership, Passion

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The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.

Zig Ziglar

Helping Others, Mountain Peaks, Self

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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Leadership, Team

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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Albert Schweitzer, William Larimer Mellon (1996). “Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr”, p.18, Syracuse University Press

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Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights.

Daisaku Ikeda

Character, People, Height

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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

Edvard Munch

Thinking, Order, People

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It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state, that we can raise our people to greater heights.

Oscar Micheaux

Light, Race, People

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Many girls prepare their whole lives for this one moment. For me, I see Miss USA as an opportunity to reach new and greater heights in the future.

Katherine Webb

Girl, Opportunity, Usa

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.

L. Ron Hubbard

War, Men, Rights

"Scientology and the Search for Significance", www.beliefnet.com.

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The world is divided into 2 streams - the one of 'Vistarvaad' & and the other of 'Vikasvaad'. Vikasvaad is indispensable in 21st Century! India & Japan need to join hands to take the pride of Vikasvaad to greater heights.

Narendra Modi

Motivation, Pride, Japan

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A wonderful blend of technology & people power for India's growth, 'MyGov' has several discussion forums, on-line & on-ground tasks. I am delighted to invite you to join 'MyGov' & contribute towards taking India to greater heights of progress.

Narendra Modi

Technology, People, Growth

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Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

Scott Westerfeld

Fall, Height, Like Her

Scott Westerfeld (2015). “Uglies & Pretties: Uglies; Pretties”, p.620, Simon and Schuster

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It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.

Charles Dickens

Nature, Moon, Clouds

Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield0: In Three Volumes”, p.265

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We became a congresswoman, a stay-at-home mom, a filmmaker, and a journalist. And Lino and I taught our children that they could rise to even greater heights. They could become surgeons, CEOs, supreme court justices, secretary of state, and even president of the United States. We didn't teach our daughters that they were second-class citizens.

Diana DeGette

Mom, Daughter, Badass

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I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait.

Richard Avedon

Forever, Records, Height

"All About Audrey" by Pamela Fiori, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 23, 2013.

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Nowhere does one become more convinced of the strong hold which Freemasonry takes upon the minds and lives of those aging workers in the Craft who have attained its highest honors and of their firm belief in the power of its teachings to purify the soul of men and raise them to a new dignity and to greater heights of spirituality and practical morality.

George Washington

Strong, Teaching, Men

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When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around.

Jeb Bush

Hard Times, Challenges, Height

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