Rise Above Quotes - Page 11

• One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

  George W. Bush

  Education, Laughter, Inspiration

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Abortion, Understanding

  "Ronald Reagan".

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• I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man to rise above himself, and to choose the option of quality rather than material superfluity.

  Freeman Tilden

  Men, Quality, Fields

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• Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

  Jim Rohn

  Book, Reading, Ordinary

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• So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do, we learn. We learn to exercise true compassion, true kindness - or the thorns, if we let them, cause us to brood, to mourn over our trials. Then we plant the seeds of bitterness, hate, and ruin - weeds. We may reach up for the rose or down to the weeds...the weeds in life that tangle us, strangle us, and cause us to lose hope.

  James Michael

  Weed, Kindness, Hate

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• We who have witnessed the obscenity of war and experienced its horror and terrible consequences have an obligation to rise above our pain and suffering and turn the tragedy of our lives into a triumph.

  Ron Kovic

  Pain, War, Suffering

  "The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq" by Ron Kovic, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2006.

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• Only until you rise above the use of the second attention for manipulation that you can enter into a consciousness in which there is enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Attention

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• Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attitude, Heart, Winning

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• Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reason, Rise Above It, Contrary

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• Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

  James Connolly

  Inspiration, People, Literature

  James Connolly (1971). “Labour in Irish History”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.

  Myla Goldberg

  Atheist, Bullshit, Trying

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• To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.

  Arturo Sandoval

  Ambition, Reality, Discipline

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• But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Years, Law, People

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• It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Well Known, Life Altering, Ability

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.51, Beacon Press

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• I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that they’re complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better—to know that they can rise above that and make something great.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  People, Shy, Sides

  "Elizabeth Peyton" by Jarvis Cocker, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

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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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• We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke rising above the Pentagon.

  Mike Pence

  Evil, September 11, Enemy

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• The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.

  Ruth Benedict

  Training, Body, Spirit

  Ruth Benedict (2006). “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Jesus, Rocks, Rose

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.253

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• We cannot be fearful all the time; we have to rise above our fear, whatever is to happen to us, however our conditions may challenge us. To be fearless is a decision that one must make. And this fearlessness becomes the fundamental ground of nonviolence.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Decision, Fearless, Challenges

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• I learned early on that war forms its own culture. The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug, one I ingested for many years. It is peddled by mythmakers- historians, war correspondents, filmmakers, novelists, and the state- all of whom endow it with qualities it often does possess: excitement, exoticism, power, chances to rise above our small stations in life, and a bizarre and fantastic universe that has a grotesque and dark beauty.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Dark, Years

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.3, PublicAffairs

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• What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Want, Said, Humans

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.

  Sammy Hagar

  Couple, Fighting, Stupidest

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• Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre and conventional; to say something that will command the respect of the intelligent, the educated, the independent part of the community; to rise above fear of partisanship and fear of popular prejudice. I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Independent, Hard Work, Opportunity

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