Rise Above It Quotes - Page 2

• Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Class, Perfect, Bird

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• Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by its own inner feelings. It needs no popular opinions as its reward in any way; nor has it any fear of punishments. Thus the less it strives for glory, the more it rises above it. For to those who seek for glory, that reward in the shape of present things is but a shadow of future ones, and is a hindrance to eternal life, as it is written in the Scriptures: 'Truly I say to you, they have received their reward'

  Ambrose

  Christian, Blessed, Punishment

  St. Ambrose (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Ambrose (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You can rise above it. This country gives you opportunity if you want to take it, so don't blame your environment. I look down on people who use their environment as a crutch.

  Vince McMahon

  Country, Opportunity, People

  "Meltzer says he hears HHH and Vince got beef", rebrn.com. March 9, 2016.

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• Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Names, Groups

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Pigs in Heaven”, p.139, Faber & Faber

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• I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.

  Markus Zusak

  Strong, Struggle, Mouths

  Markus Zusak (2011). “Underdogs”, p.288, Scholastic Inc.

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• A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.

  Betty Smith

  Heart, Compassion, Two

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it.

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

  Forgiveness, Doe, Deeds

  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (2013). “A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer”, p.112, Portobello Books

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• Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

  Robert Crais

  Drama, Past, Childhood

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• Unfortunately, I have realized that we cannot completely erase all the evil from the world, but we can change the way we deal with it, we can rise above it and stay strong and true to ourselves.

  Zlata Filipović

  Stay Strong, Evil, World

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• Through the practice of devotion to God, I was coming to learn that preserving loving relations in this world required much forgiveness, tolerance, patience, gratitude, and humility. An essential virtue of humility is to accept others for what they are, despite differences. I contemplated again how the tendency to judge others is often a symptom of insecurity, immaturity, or selfishness, and I yearned to rise above it. Everyone is a child of God. God loves all of His children. If I wish to love God, I must learn to love those whom He loves.

  Radhanath Swami

  Gratitude, Children, Humility

  Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the most important elements of Caio-ness I wanted to keep was that left to right reading, where one form draws you... this movement in what is otherwise a fairly still art, that sense of pulling the eye. It involves a sense of time. To me that's esoteric and magical and playful, and if a painting doesn't have that, to me it's just canvas and paint. If it does have that, then it rises above its materials.

  Caio Fonseca

  Art, Reading, Eye

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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