Rise Above Quotes - Page 4

• Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Strong, Passion, Ambition

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• We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Being Different, Rising, Aversion

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jul 13, 2015

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• If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Weakness, Fellow Man

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• What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.

  Wayne Dyer

  Heart, Optimism, Forever

  "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem". Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.

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• We just feel like we don't have the means, To rise above and beat it. So we keep waiting, Waiting on the world to change...

  John Mayer

  Mean, Waiting, World

  "Song: Waiting on the World to Change (Continuum)". July 11, 2006.

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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, Obliged

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

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• In proportion as man gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty loan idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will.

  Charles Kingsley

  Loyalty, Sacrifice, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writer" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 405, 1895.

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• Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

  Brian Tracy

  Blessing, Opportunity, Greatness

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• Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from it. All blessed things that rise above the state of nature are owned to it. The human race thrives only because of the lack of control, not because of it. I’m saying that we need ever more absence of control to make the world a more beautiful place. It is a paradox that we must forever explain.

  Jeffrey Tucker

  Beautiful, Blessed, Fall

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• A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. The spacecraft carries our secret hope that there is something better out there-a world where we may someday go and leave the sorrows of the past behind. The spacecraft rises toward the heavens exactly as, in our finest moments as a nation, our hearts have risen toward justice and principle.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Inspiration, Heart, Past

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• Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eminence, Superiority

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.62

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• Christianity is wild. It’s intimate. It’s heartbreaking and soul-mending. It’s the wings to rise above the everyday and hope of a honeymoon with the God who has loved you forever. The party has just begun, and the best is yet to come.

  Steven James

  Party, Wings, Forever

  Steven James (2012). “Flirting with the Forbidden: Finding Grace in a World of Temptation”, p.89, Baker Books

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• The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.

  Andre Maurois

  Spring, Real, Writing

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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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• No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the back help women to rise above patriarchal oppression?

  John Green

  Lying, Covenant, Sacred

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.55, Penguin

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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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• To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.

  Eric Liu

  Country, Mean, Citizenship

  Eric Liu, Nick Hanauer (2012). “The True Patriot”, p.35, Sasquatch Books

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• There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Pain, Grief, Feelings

  “The Unsikable Jennifer Aniston” by Leslie Bennetts, www.vanityfair.com. October 10, 2006.

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• [God] is perfect not only insofar as He is absolute perfection, defining perfection in Himself and from His singular existence and total perfection, but also because He is far beyond being so. He sets a boundary to the boundless and in His total unity He rises above all limitation. He is neither contained nor comprehended by anything. He reaches out to everything and beyond everything and does so with unfailing generosity and unstinted activity.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Perfect, Generosity

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• Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

  Rumi

  Giving Up, Heart, Dancing

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• Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Struggle, Men, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.9, editionNEXT.com

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• If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors.

  Perry DeAngelis

  Rising, Flip, Sides

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• No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.

  David Josiah Brewer

  Book, Principles, Jamestown

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• The morning sun Radiantly Rises above the frosty woods.

  Dakotsu Iida

  Nature, Morning, Woods

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• No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Trying, Empowered

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