Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Worry, Managing Worries
Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Generations
When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Ambition
Love is what’s left of a relationship after all the selfishness has been removed.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Love
Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Vengeance, Anger
Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don’t.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Laws
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
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
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Worry
Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Speakers, Speaking, Government
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There’s no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Kindness
A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Mind
Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: America
The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Mind
Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Success
The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn’t built for coasting.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Body, Health
If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we’d slam a car door on it.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Government
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
Strangers are what friends are made of.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Friendship
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
—Cullen Hightower
Topics: Mistakes
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
—Cullen Hightower
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