Raises Quotes

• He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Fall, Ambition, Loss

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• What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suffering, Criminals, Criminal Mind

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Genealogy of Morals”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• If you want a significant man, with absolutes, morality, and meaning, then you must have what the Bible insists upon - that God will judge men justly, and they will not be able to raise their voices because of the base upon which He judges them.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, Voice, Judging

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

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• He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Family, Sorrow

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.182

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• It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity

  Horace

  Courage, Adversity, Blood

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• I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Gratitude, Flower

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• Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.273

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• When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.

  Zig Ziglar

  Love, Motivational, Relationship

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Aug 04, 2014

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• In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Freedom, Writing, America

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.110, Penguin

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• It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Courage, Blood, Splendor

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2934, e-artnow

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• My goal should never be to raise kids that make me look good. (Oh but how my flesh craves this!) My goal should be to raise kids who love God and spend their lives making His goodness known in their corner of the world.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Kids, Goal, Looks

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 17, 2014

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• When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Children, Parent, Heaven

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• People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

  Adam Smith

  Invisible Hand, People, Competition

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 10 (1776)

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• What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects; we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.

  Annie Dillard

  Differences, Blue, Whales

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters”, p.66, Canongate Books

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• No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power and possessions that once would have seemed beyond their wildest dreams. And even when the external world has granted all it can, there still remain the searchings of the mind and the longings of the heart.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dream, Heart, Men

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “Childhood’s End”, p.99, RosettaBooks

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• The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Desire, Levels, Tripping

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• Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Trying, Quality, Routine

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• My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

  Christina Rossetti

  Life, Work, Eye

  Christina Georgina Rossetti, “A Birthday”

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• I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Clouds, Soul

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• What are you doing?" she asked, trying to raise herself. "First, I thought I'd show you what a pity it would be if they cut off my wicked tongue.

  Melina Marchetta

  Cutting, Trying, Wicked

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• There's a Drunk Midget in My House Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts. Like most people who have had one baby, I am an expert on everythiing and will tell you, unsolicited, how to raise your kid!

  Tina Fey

  Baby, Kids, Adorable

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• Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.

  Emily Bronte

  Angel, Wrinkles, Doubt

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.408, Penguin

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• The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.

  Wendy Shalit

  Men, Differences, Domestic Violence

  Wendy Shalit (2000). “A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.

  Glen Cook

  Children, Names, Laughing

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.243, Macmillan

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• The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rest Of Life, People, Challenges

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