Take The High Road Quotes

#1. All the tut-tutters out there will say: She should have just left, bundled up what remained of her dignity. Take the high road! Two wrongs don't make a right! All those things that spineless women say, confusing their weakness with morality.

Gillian Flynn

#2. Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. When we forgive we are telling God that we have faith in him to fight our injustices. It might not seem possible when you are standing in a storm, but when you take the high road you can see farther than you can now.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

Tim Gunn

#5. When you take the high road you will see things that some people can't.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded.

Mia Farrow

#7. After we ordered dessert, Skye seemed to remember that conversation required a give and take, looked at me and said, "So...you're an accountant. Sounds painfully boring."
I wanted to say, "not as painfully boring as this conversation", but decided to take the high road.

Marshall Thornton

#8. Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Warren Buffett

#9. Which will you take, the high road or the low road?"
"Which one is longer?"
"They're both short.

Yasutaka Tsutsui

#10. My best life advice:Take the high road.No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road.You will never regret it.

Tim Gunn

#11. Man. I know they say it's good to take the high road. But it's also good to punch assholes in the face, too.

Ava Lore

#12. Sometimes when life kicks you in the ass, you have to kick it back. In the nuts. With steel-toed boots. Essentially, if someone, anyone, kicks you, it is very mature to take the high-road and not kick them back. But it's not fun. And I'm all about fun. One hundred percent fun. One fundred percent.

Sara Wolf

#13. I've been trying to take the high road, you know, the Capone way ...

J.M. Darhower

#14. I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

Larry Wilcox

#15. Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.

Phil McGraw

#16. Always take the high road.

John C. Maxwell

#17. No matter who you are, or what you're doing, there's always going to be someone that wants to be better than you. So I try to take the high road and be the bigger person. That way, you always win in the end!

Sara Paxton

#18. It took a lot of courage to take the high road, but I would rather be significant with six million people watching a show with meaning, than everyone watching a show with no meaning.

Oprah Winfrey

#19. Meyer summarizes his code of honor as "(1) Show up, (2) Work hard. (3) Be kind. (4) Take the high road.

Adam Grant

#20. Sometimes - this is a tough one - not everyone can handle the truth. Sometimes you have to take a beat. But if you can take that beat, and take the high road, it'll serve you in the long run.

Jeremy Piven

#21. All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie.

Paula Abdul

#22. If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.

Nicolle Wallace

#23. Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

John Steinbeck

#24. ... but now, along this high, rocky road, it was the leaves of cherry trees that predominated. From the bridge on, these lay like fallen red flowers. Some wet leaves, already decaying, had faded to a pink that was the color of the dawn. Why should decay take the color of the dawn?

Yukio Mishima

#25. If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun, be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail-
Be the best of whatever you are.

Douglas Malloch

#26. If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.

Charles R. Swindoll

#27. After being told that the Professor "found it possible to believe for a moment in the existence of God," Isak thought, "Has it been possible to God, at Mount Elgon, to believe for a moment in the existence of Professor Landgreen?

Isak Dinesen

#28. When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool.

Anita Roddick

#29. Was there a plan here, apart from 'let's all go to the meadow and get turned into confetti by the sheep'?

Seanan McGuire

#30. I have tried to get you off my mind for the entire summer. I know that we don't really know each other. I had to see if I saw you again, if I touched you again, if this, this feeling would still be here.

J.B. McGee

#31. For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.

Herman Melville

#32. Ugh! She cursed her lack of attention to the [mythology] reading. Who could have known that would be the important class?

Joannah Miley

#33. Taking the high road is hard work-- walking uphill requires strength and effort. Anyone can take the low road--walking downhill is easy.

Rachel St. John-Gilbert

#34. In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you go to the wrong college, you take the wrong job. Any of these things could really get you in trouble down the road. Or in your mind anyway. You're afraid to make any move, it's paralyzing.

Meghan Daum

#35. The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road.

George W. Bush

#36. I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally.

Joan Didion

#37. Life is choices...and sometimes other people's choices even more than your own.

Jamie Mason

#38. A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.

Daniel H. Pink

#39. But rabbits belong to the Children of Oryx and are sacred to Oryx herself, and it would be a bad idea to offend the women. It

Margaret Atwood

#40. Over time, I realized I wasn't necessarily seeing people or things at their best or worst; instead, I was simply seeing things as they were.
There didn't seem to be a moral high road to take in most situations, and "What's the right thing to do?" wasn't an easy question.

Dee Williams

#41. Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.

Gautama Buddha