Top 380 Lofty Quotes & Sayings

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.

A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.

He is a fool who looks at the fruit of lofty trees, but does not measure their height.

I do like designing clothes that are - not exactly lofty but intellectual in their sexiness.

What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.

The God who made New Hampshire Taunted the lofty land With little men.

I set some lofty goals for myself and I think you have to.

In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles.

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

I have some lofty goals. I want 'You Broke Up With Me' to go Number One.

It's really hard to chase a lofty dream.

To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

When greatness descends from its lofty pedestal, it assumes human dimensions.

Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that.

Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about.

I look to role models to get through tough times and to reach my own lofty goals.

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

A man with lofty ideas is an uncomfortable neighbor.

As countless as grains of sand by the sea are human passions, and they all differ; all of them, vile or lofty, begin by being under a man's control and then become his terrible masters. Blessed is he who has chosen the most lofty of passions: his immeasurable bliss grows and multiplies tenfold with every hour and minute, and he penetrates deeper and deeper into the infinite paradise of his soul.

We have lofty goals, and we thrive on that.

In the soul of a Russian person there is always a drive toward some kind of lofty moral ideal, lofty moral values. That definitely sets us apart, and I'm certain it's in a good way.

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

I never had lofty dreams of doing important things.

If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.

A lofty sense of independence is, in man, the best privilege of his nature.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.

You need lofty goals. Then cement it with a great work ethic.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.

When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world.

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.

He is lofty, and I am eminent.

To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.

The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled).

I was a 'bathroom actor' and people used to laugh at me, listening to my lofty aims and ambitions.

From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.

Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.

A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.

For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.

For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind."

I have some really lofty goals that don't even scratch upon the Olympics.

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.