Taking the High Road Quotes

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

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

Michelle Obama is somebody who really wants to take the high road.

In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on.

Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult things you'll ever have to do. Doing it, however, is one of the biggest charges you can ever make to your personal battery. I call this 'won't power.'

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

I'm not a guy who believes in revenge.

It's funny, I do think I've been somewhat overlooked, but I've always viewed that as a challenge. Everyone else seems to get more upset about it than I do.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

When you are committed to doing what’s right, you are sowing seeds for God’s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.

I see them turn around to get a second look. You hear a lot of people laugh at you. So what? I used to get upset about it, but not anymore. You know, laugh all you can.

You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

Those people who have done me wrong—well, I try to outlive them.

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

If someone doesn't want me working their club, they're not going to hear from me again. I'm not going to fight or complain about it. I'd rather go someplace else.

I never engage negatively with reviewers. If someone says something that enrages me, I do what I do on stage. I make a joke about myself and move on. Sometimes people say things that are manifestly wrong or even apparently malicious. That's fine, too. It's a response.

The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

If I was going to be a little boy about it, I'd go into hiding for one or two years. But if I was going to be a man about it, it'd be 20 or 30 years.

I don't give players a chance to hit me.

The price tag for principles is sometimes much higher than what’s on the table in terms of dollars and cents.

There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life.

Everyone goes down a road that they're not supposed to go down. You can do two things from it. You can keep going down that road and go to a dark place. Or you can turn and go up the hill and go to the top - try to go to the top.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'