Pinnacle Quotes

• You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Life, Success, Money

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

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• The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Height, Determined, Breadth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.310, Library of America

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• I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Team, Home

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• Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, Attitude

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• Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

  J. K. Rowling

  Literature, Austen, Aspire

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• Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.

  Benjamin Carson

  Order, World, Talent

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• I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

  Bob Riley

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Sacrifice

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• A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspiring, Art, Inspirational Life

  Mahatma Gandhi, Judith M. Brown (2008). “The Essential Writings”, p.76, Oxford University Press

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• It is not on the pinnacle of success and ease where men and women grow most. It is often down in the valley of heartache and disappointment and reverses where men and women grow.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Disappointment, Adversity, Heartache

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• On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Success, Men, Discipline

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• Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.

  Dante Alighieri

  Justice, Doe

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• Network marketing is the only industry that allows common people to earn millions with a minimal investment and zero overhead, coupled with total time freedom and the joy of global travel. There are three magic words that worked for all of us who have made it to the pinnacle and they'll work for you: 'Just don't quit.'

  Mark Yarnell

  Time, Zero, Freedom

  Mark Yarnell, Rene Reid Yarnell (2010). “Your First Year in Network Marketing: Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams!”, p.287, Three Rivers Press

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• Forbear, you things
  That stand upon the pinnacles of state,
  To boast your slippery height! when you do fall,
  You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise:
  And he that lends you pity, is not wise.

  Ben Jonson

  Wise, Fall, Pieces

  Ben Jonson (1990). “Sejanus His Fall”, p.261, Manchester University Press

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• Every loneliness is a pinnacle

  Ayn Rand

  Loneliness

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.264, Penguin

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• To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Profound, Cosmos, Purpose

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• Was there no safety? No learning by heart of the ways of the world? No guide, no shelter, but all was miracle, and leaping from the pinnacle of a tower into the air? Could it be, even for elderly people, that this was life?--startling, unexpected, unknown?

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Elderly, Air

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.139, Virginia Woolf

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• The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

  Patrick Stewart

  Knights, Astonishment, Theater

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• My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

  John Keats

  Death, Sleep, Eagles

  John Keats (1818). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.178

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• Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

  Henry Miller

  Cheer, Hero, Gone

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• At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.

  John Strachan

  Foundation, World, Might

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• The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every person out there isn't dating a writer.

  Rachel Bloom

  Sexy, Writing, Intelligent

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• The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood.

  Alex Ferguson

  Careers, Three, Knighthood

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• I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

  Jack Klugman

  Broken Heart, Horse, Careers

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• Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum.

  Havelock Ellis

  Religious, Jesus, Careers

  Impressions and Comments 5 January (1922)

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• The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.

  David Lloyd George

  Fate, Sacrifice, Hands

  Speech in Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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