Rise Above It Quotes

• To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

  Michael Korda

  Success, Failure, Acceptance

  "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

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• When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

  Carly Fiorina

  Ideas, People, Challenges

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• Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.

  Harvey Mackay

  Levels, Rewards, Fields

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• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• There is undoubtedly a lot of pressure that comes with recognition, which can be a good thing and bad thing all at the same time. But if you stay focused and don't lose sight of what you're doing and who you are, you can rise above it.

  Prabal Gurung

  Sight, Pressure, Recognition

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• You can be angry and pissed off at the coach and put your head down and pout. Or you can rise above it, respect the decision, but also know that you're going to go and work that much harder and prove everybody wrong. And that's the road that I chose.

  Carli Lloyd

  Decision, Down And, Pissed Off

  "This Pre-World Cup Interview with Carli Lloyd Shows Just How Awesomely Intense She Is". Interview with George Quraishi, www.slate.com. July 8, 2015.

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• It's gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back.

  Demi Lovato

  Bad Ass, Rocks, Matter

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• Most people who have a problem concentrate on the problem. They take it to bed with them and stay awake all night thinking it over. Let go of that problem. Rise above it in consciousness.

  Emmet Fox

  Letting Go, Night, Thinking

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

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Reason, Rise Above, Contrary

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• Breathe, believe, and battle.' My former coach, Troy Tanner, told us that before each match. Breathe-be in the moment. Believe-have faith that you can rise above it. Battle-you gotta be prepared to go for as long as it takes.

  Kerri Walsh

  Believe, Long, Battle

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• That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it.

  Robin Hobb

  Self, Events In Life, Challenges

  Robin Hobb (2014). “The Liveship Traders Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Ship of Magic, Mad Ship, Ship of Destiny”, p.1940, Del Rey

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• You learn nothing form your successes except to think too much of yourself. It is from failure that all growth comes, provided you can recognize it, admit it, learn from it, rise above it, and then try again.

  Dee Hock

  Motivational, Success, Thinking

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• I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Peace, Criticism, Realizing

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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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• Looking back, I've learned the most from the bad coaches, really, how not to act, how not to coach, how not to treat people. So I always say no matter what situations you're faced with, how bad it is, you can always walk away and learn. You can always rise above it.

  Jennie Finch

  People, Matter, I've Learned

  "Jennie Finch Interviewed by Gary Leland". fastpitch.tv. March 13, 2014.

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• Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Vexation, Life Is

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.85, 谷月社

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• If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Hero, Ships, Rise Above

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• We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.

  Voltaire

  Age, Levels, Rise Above

  Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.61

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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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• Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise above it and create a new world. That's why I so deeply believe in alternative spaces. That's why I believe in the power of art and activism.

  Eve Ensler

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place. To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

  Michael Korda

  Believe, Order, People

  "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

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