Raises Quotes - Page 23

• Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Bars

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• If our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk away from a life of faith, risk and adventure and to choose a life that boring, mundane and ordinary

  Erwin McManus

  Jesus, Children, Adventure

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• Strive with all your hearts, raise up your voices and shout, until this dark world be filled with light.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Heart, Dark, Light

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• I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside.

  Tommy Douglas

  Boys, Class, Should Have

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• I felt that no boy should have to depend either for his leg or his life upon the ability of his parents to raise enough money to bring a first-class surgeon to his bedside. And I think it was out of this experience, not at the moment consciously, but through the years, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they require irrespective of their individual capacity to pay.

  Tommy Douglas

  Believe, Boys, Thinking

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• My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.

  Dan Flavin

  Blessed, Icons, Light

  Corinna Thierolf, Dan Flavin, Johannes Vogt (2009). “Dan Flavin: Icons”, Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh

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• It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.

  Howard Schmidt

  Mom, Dollars, Bars

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• I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and obscure city to glory and greatness...whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim.

  Themistocles

  Greatness, Play, Cities

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• If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.

  Liz Murray

  New York, Kids, Space

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• You think you are alone. Then you raise your eyes, and you are surrounded.

  Jack Miles

  Eye, Thinking

  Jack Miles (2011). “God: A Biography”, p.409, Vintage

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• Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

  Amit Ray

  Prayer, Heart, Perfect

  Amit Ray (2010). “OM Chanting and Meditation”, p.50, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.

  Tony Robbins

  Want, Changing Your Life, Standards

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• We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death.

  Nelson Mandela

  Voice, Victory, Christ

  Nelson Mandela's Speech at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference, db.nelsonmandela.org. April 3, 1994.

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• When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

  Robert Greene

  Opinion, Influence, Decided

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• When we complain, we remain. When we whine, we stay behind. When we praise, we raise.

  Jim Bakker

  Complaining, Praise, Behinds

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• Raise children who do the right things for the right reasons.

  Lisa Whelchel

  Children, Reason, Right Thing

  Lisa Whelchel (2011). “Creative Correction: Extraordinary Ideas for Everyday Discipline”, p.40, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product.

  Ron Paul

  Hemp, Reason, Farmers

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• Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

  Patti Smith

  Growing Up, Hands, Sometimes

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.104, A&C Black

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• Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of a category. You do not want me to be thinking about what I am, but about what You are. Or rather, You do not even want me to be thinking about anything much: for You would raise me above the level of thought. And if I am always trying to figure out what I am and where I am and why I am, how will that work be done?

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Thinking, Always Trying

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• The only way Congress can get one dollar to spend is to take that one dollar from Americans, borrow that one dollar from Americans, or inflate that one dollar from Americans. So, it's very much like the visual image of a swimming pool. A person notes there is a shallow end, so he takes the water out of the deep end and pours it in the shallow end, hoping to raise the height of the water in the pool - and you would call that person stupid.

  Walter E. Williams

  Stupid, Swimming, Water

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• The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

  Dan Bartlett

  Hurt, Feelings, Economy

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• Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems.

  Karl Popper

  Obstacles, Problem, Solutions

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.38, Routledge

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• Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

  Rollo May

  People, Evil, Tears

  Rollo May (1985). “My Quest for Beauty”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• The calf scramble will be during both rodeo performances and consist of children attempting to catch and halter several loose calves. If a child succeeds, he or she will receive a certificate to purchase a breeding animal to raise and bring back to the livestock show next year.

  Kim Carnes

  Children, Animal, Years

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• I raise quarter horses. Mine are mostly thoroughbred cross horses, a little bigger horses than some people like. I sell them or use them on the ranch. A lot of them go to the rodeo arena and some of them go to racetracks.

  Wilford Brimley

  Horse, People, Use

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