Low Quotes

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits. (Michelangelo)
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it. View quote
George Carlin
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. View quote
George Carlin
Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. View quote
Bruce Lee
While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. View quote
Alan Perlis
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! View quote
Charles Darwin
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. View quote
William Hazlitt
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly. View quote
Georg Büchner
Shy and proud men ... are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen. (Henry Taylor)
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. View quote
Robert Browning
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! View quote
Dr. Seuss
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot. View quote
Thomas Moore
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. View quote
Giordano Bruno
I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go. View quote
Charles Stuart Calverley
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. View quote
Desmond Tutu
Not failure, but low aim, is crime. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Too low they build who build beneath the stars. (Edward Young)
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. View quote
Michelangelo
Speak low, if you speak love. View quote
William Shakespeare
Force always attracts men of low morality. View quote
Albert Einstein
The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
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