Rise Above Quotes - Page 13

• A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Ambition, Men, Trying

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• Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Beautiful, Stars

  Helen Keller, SBP Editors (2017). “The Story of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.93, Samaira Book Publishers

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• Some of you may feel that you are not as attractive and beautiful and glamorous as you would like to be. Rise above any such feelings, cultivate the light you have within you, and it will shine through as a radiant expression that will be seen by others. You need never feel inferior. You need never feel that you were born without talents or without opportunities to give them expression. Cultivate whatever talents you have, and they will grow anв refine and become an expression of your true self appreciated by others.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Self Esteem, Opportunity

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• This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

  John Podhoretz

  Presidential, Thrones, Goes On

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• A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they'll ask one of two questions. Either they will ask: "what in God's name were they doing?" or they may look back and say: "how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?"

  Al Gore

  Children, Names, Two

  "Our World" with David Newman, www.voanews.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wisdom, Islamic, World

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• The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Government, Class, Failing

  Robert L. Heilbroner (1986). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers”

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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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• I see a sea of networkers all doing and saying the same things.
  They look alike, act alike and sound alike when speaking to prospects.
  If you want to rise above the average, mediocre networker... then you
  have to think differently.

  Mark Weiser

  Thinking, Average, Sea

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• Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous.

  Thucydides

  Thinking, Long, Praise

  Thucydides (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thucydides (Illustrated)”, p.114, Delphi Classics

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• As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry.

  Henry Purcell

  Exaltation, Oratory, Harmony

  Henry Purcell, Edward Taylor (1843). “King Arthur: an opera in 5 acts, written by John Dryden”, p.15

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• There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.

  Colleen McCullough

  Smile, God, Song

  "Fictional character: Ralph de Bricassart". "There are no ambitions noble", www.imdb.com. 1983.

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• There is no point in worry or wonder about worse or better spiritual conditions, although that game is available. You will not be able to rise above your present vibration level to stay until you love the way you are now.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Games, Worry

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.58, Gibbs Smith

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• Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

  Henry Roth

  Laughter, Grief, Rising

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• Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Giving, Want

  Chris Hedges (2014). “War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning”, p.14, PublicAffairs

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• Rise above principle and do what is right.

  Walter Heller

  Justice, Principles, Ethics

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• Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Faith, Jesus, Inspiration

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• There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Fall, Animal

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd, Henry George Bohn (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Tatler and Spectator [no. 1-160”, p.460

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• To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Running, Exercise, Risk

  "American right vows to settle score as Bush's nemesis turns up the heat" by Lawrence Donegan, Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2004.

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• Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I’m saying. And it’s the language in which I most often hear God’s voice on the rare occasion that it rises above the noise.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Mother, Religious, Voice

  Rachel Held Evans (2012). “A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'”, p.18, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Animal, Action, Emotion

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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• Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.

  John Burroughs

  Lying, Character, Fate

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• I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Beautiful, Thinking, Clouds

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• Can the child within my heart rise above Can I sail through the changing ocean tides Can I handle the seasons of my life Well, I've been afraid of changing 'Cause I've built my life around you But time makes you get bolder Even children get older And I'm getting older too

  Stevie Nicks

  Life, Children, Ocean

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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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