Quotes About Higher Ground

#1. For humans to move to higher ground, we must have different views, but share the common ground as well.

Pearl Zhu

#2. If we are serious about climbing to higher ground, we will be found in church every Sunday - attending all of our meetings, partaking of the sacrament, participating in Sunday School, and contributing to the spirit found in Relief Society, Primary, and priesthood meetings.

Robert L. Millet

#3. As we come unto Christ and journey to higher ground, we will desire to spend more time in His temples, because the temples represent higher ground, sacred ground.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#4. We have always believed that our people can stand on no higher ground than the school ground, or can enter any more hopeful room than the classroom. We blend time and faith and knowledge in our schools - not only to create educated citizens, but also to shape the destiny of this great Republic.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#5. Indeed, it is the nature of intelligent life to climb mountains. They all want to stand on ever higher ground to gaze ever farther into the distance. It is a drive completely divorced from the demands of survival.

Liu Cixin

#6. We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#7. I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground
the refuge and eternal protection of the temple.

Quentin L. Cook

#8. If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

Bob Seger

#10. (P.S. If you have addictions, not only do they ruin your sixth sense, they ruin everything else as well. Keep in mind that as you reach for higher ground, it's necessary to leave the swamp. Before you can go one step further, you must be honest and admit you need help. Then get it. It's time.)

Sonia Choquette

#11. We can become the masters of our own destinies by practicing self-discipline and by setting worthy goals that will lead to higher ground so that we can become what our heavenly father wants us to become.

M. Russell Ballard

#12. General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if you keep on advancing you will find constantly higher ground all the way to the mountains.

George Meade

#13. You cannot life another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is.

Harold B. Lee

#14. I stand, and wait among the sea foam. I swim in my own tears-I sing without my voice. I do not reach for higher ground, because I have lapped in the churning waters.

Meredith T. Taylor

#15. Seeking higher ground is not a destination, but an elevation. Wings up, eyes shut open.

T.F. Hodge

#16. 102. Scramble to reach higher ground. Order and sanity, something to comfort me.

Maynard James Keenan

#17. We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

Jim Wallis

#18. If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. Press forward at all times, climbing forward toward that higher ground of the harmonious society that shapes the laws of man to the laws of God.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

#20. Anger or bitterness toward those who have hurt you will block your path to higher ground. You can have anger toward people or you can have freedom from people, but you can't have both.

Vernon Howard

#21. I think Steve King is absolutely wrong and I just hope that we can try to reach higher ground, because when you are spewing this kind of nonsense, things that Donald Trump says, Ben Carson says, but also [Marco] Rubio and [Ted] Cruz and even Jeb Bush have said.

Steve King

#22. There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

Maxwell Anderson

#23. We have every confidence that earth and hell will not overtake you, but it will require that you move from your current plateaus and climb to higher ground.

Jack H. Goaslind

#24. We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to "grow in grace" and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.

Vance Havner

#25. Most people follow the path wherever it leads them. Others hack their own way through the brush and always seem to end up on higher ground.

P.B. Ryan

#26. Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.

Les Brown

#27. But time soon passes. Even the deepest pain eventually loses its edge in the more vivid reality of the present; then, what once was unbearable becomes strangely familiar. And after much familiarity, it assumes the insignificance of just another milestone, ever marking the journey to higher ground.

N. Maria Kwami

#28. What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.

Oprah Winfrey

#29. Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.

Nancy Gibbs

#30. When mankind is drowning in a multitude of problems, swimming is not the solution. The solution is reaching higher ground which is the ultimate salvation.

Debasish Mridha

#31. To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.

John Bytheway

#32. We must risk the journey to a higher ground where there
is freedom from the gravitational pull of our stories,
the pull that comes from years of trying to prove that
the stories we tell ourselves, the ones we've made up,
are the truth.

Debbie Ford

#33. Walk through the mud in life, if you ever want to get to the higher ground

Greg Plitt

#34. If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.

George Saunders

#35. Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.

Lance Secretan

#36. You cannot lift another soul until you are standing on higher ground than he is. You cannot light a fire in another soul unless it is burning in your own soul.

Harold B. Lee

#37. The Lord is anxious to lead us to the safety of higher ground, away from the path of physical and spiritual danger. His upward path will require us to climb.

Henry B. Eyring

#38. I would prefer just to be an actor for hire rather than struggling with something like Higher Ground, that I had a lot of emotion attached to.

Joe Lando

#39. On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

Bruce Springsteen

#40. Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#41. If you lose direction,
go to a higher ground.

Toba Beta

#42. In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.

Christine Pelosi

#43. I have a lot of reason to believe, as we saw in the 2012 election, most Americans don't agree with the extremists on any side of an issue, but there needs to continue to be an effort to find common ground, or even take it to higher ground on behalf of the future.

Hillary Clinton

#44. Be a Mother who is committed to loving her children into standing on higher ground than the enviroment surrounding them. Mothers are endowed with a love that is unlike any other love on the face of the earth.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

#45. I started out doing things like 'Flash Forward,' where I was the girl-next-door, and then, I did a show called 'Higher Ground,' where I played this really mean, sarcastic girl. Then 'Firefly' happened, and everybody thought of me as this bubbly, sweet girl-next-door again.

Jewel Staite

#46. We need to get out of this fetid pusshole and get to some higher ground.

Cody Lundin

#47. God doesn't hand you an easy life because you will grow in it. He hands you a dream with hurdles, obstacles, setbacks, battles and challenges because he knows the real you is at the finishing line.

Shannon L. Alder

#48. pulling a great substance from a higher height whilst leaning on a slippery ground with the mentality of having the substance whilst standing is a thought of fantasy. You may only result in falling with the substance

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#49. What is it about power, that it has to be higher up than everyone else? Can a man not be powerful on the ground floor?

Joe Abercrombie

#50. The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.

Samuel Johnson

#51. From a Higher Point Everything Looks more Little, but Business we do on the Ground.

Jan Jansen

#52. I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there be a higher standard of conduct for public officials?

Mark McKinnon

#53. As we grow, we lift our gaze higher and higher, and then sometimes we are brought to our knees, but all is not lost; what we find on the ground can be very valuable and precisely what we need.

Michael Leunig

#54. bound to decay faster than normal upon coming in direct contact with wet ground. In addition, their cost is significantly higher

Kimberly Byrne

#55. Higher good is like water:
the good in water benefits all,
and does so without contention.
It rests where people dislike to be,
so it is close to the Way.
Good ground;
profound is the good in its heart,
Benevolent the good it bestows.

Lao-Tzu

#56. It is interesting to ask why people who come to view art suddenly posture themselves as full of righteousness. It's as if my artwork suddenly lends a higher moral ground to everyone else in the Thai art world.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

#57. Flying starts from the ground. The more grounded you are, the higher you fly.

J.R. Rim

#58. The great are like a rubber ball; the harder they hit the ground, the higher they rise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#59. In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now.

Wangari Maathai

#60. Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

Amy Ray

#61. If we made an income pyramid out of a child's blocks, with each layer portraying $1,000 of income, the peak would be far higher than the Eiffel Tower, but almost all of us would be within a yard of the ground.

Paul Samuelson

#62. The broader and higher aspects of life are international ... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.

Ameen Rihani

#63. I learned that there is good in this world, if you look hard enough for it. I learned that not everyone is disappointing, including me, and that a 1,257-foot bump in the ground can feel higher than a bell tower if you're standing next to the right person.

Jennifer Niven

#64. The higher power is lower to the ground and walks on four feet.

Elena Sigman

#65. Very few people realize that the ionizing radiation levels on a commercial jet airplane at cruising altitude are approximately 28 times higher than ground level.

Steven Magee

#66. Hope is like air if not built on a fertile ground. A ground that requires attention and nurturing. You cannot stop working on that ground even if the hope is sprouting higher into the sky.

Michael Bassey

#67. There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground.

David Puttnam

#68. Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.

Rudolf G. Binding