Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Agreement
In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Work
A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Mind
If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.
—Cullen Hightower
Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: America
There’s too much said for the sake of argument and too little said for the sake of agreement.
—Cullen Hightower
We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.
—Cullen Hightower
Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don’t use it.
—Cullen Hightower
Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Money
Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Generations
Integrity is an absolute virtue.
—Cullen Hightower
Wisdom is what’s left after we’ve run out of personal opinions.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Wisdom
Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
—Cullen Hightower
Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Success
When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.
—Cullen Hightower
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Managing Worries, Worry
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Worry
When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Ambition
Our ego is our silent partner – too often with controlling interest.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Ego
Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Government, Speaking, Speakers
Love is what’s left of a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Love
The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn’t built for coasting.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Body, Health
Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Anger, Vengeance
Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.
—Cullen Hightower
The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Mind
When an optimist and a pessimist are wasting their time, the optimist is never aware of it.
—Cullen Hightower
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn’t be so bad if the next Congress didn’t keep trying to correct them.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Government
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Conversation
Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don’t.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Laws
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
—Cullen Hightower
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