Rise Above Quotes - Page 7

• Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Falling In Love, Simple, Men

  Bruce Springsteen (2011). “Bruce Springsteen - Sheet Music Anthology: Piano/Vocal/Guitar Sheet Music Songbook Collection”, p.183, Alfred Music

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• Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Pride, Community, Lines

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.551, Regnery Publishing

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• Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him?

  Elbert Hubbard

  Respect, Errors, Fog

  Elbert Hubbard (2009). “Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others”, p.66, The Floating Press

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• I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

  Theodore White

  Years, Cities, Two

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• Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.

  Nilakanta Sri Ram

  Spiritual, Opposites, Matter

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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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• Certain mystical philosophers have personified Destiny, and from this point of view each man's personal destiny is his archetype or "other self"--his "angel"--with whom he must be reunited if he is to rise above his fragmentary identity as a worldling and become whole, as he is (and always has been) in the mind of God.

  Charles le Gai Eaton

  Angel, Destiny, Men

  Gai Eaton (1985). “Islam and the Destiny of Man”, p.60, SUNY Press

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• One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Greatness, Way, Study

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. II, 1938.

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• By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Chakra Meditation

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• We want a good government that works. Let us rise above caste divisions and nepotism and pledge to elect a government that is development oriented. Delhi needs a stable government and a strong government

  Narendra Modi

  Strong, Government, India

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• We have to fight terror in one voice, rising above politics. That is when the common people will feel secure.

  Narendra Modi

  Fighting, Voice, People

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• Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Belief, Hundred

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

  Amy Tan

  Family, Mother, Brother

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.89, Penguin

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• I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough.

  Emily Carr

  Humility, Sight, Desire

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.117, D & M Publishers

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• When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Suffering

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• Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.

  Francis Lieber

  Truth, Real, Voice

  Francis Lieber (1853). “On Civil Liberty and Self-government”, p.366

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• It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Wise, Freedom, Philosophy

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

  Irving Stone

  Artist, Mediocrity, Ifs

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• Sometimes I wonder why the corporate world is seen as a god choice for those of us that will never rise above clerical work and general administration.

  Rob Payne

  Choices, World, Administration

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Names, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.93

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• The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, where we're both in no-thought. There's a deep connection.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Animal, Thinking, Connections

  Source: jhaines6.wordpress.com

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• A Saudi Arabian prince has said that oil may never again rise above $100 a barrel. He said it's gotten so bad he can't afford to buy his wife her own car that she's not allowed to drive.

  Conan O'Brien

  Oil, Wife, Car

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• From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Knowledge, Perspective, House

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• I have a toothache today. I never seem to be able to rise above a toothache. It makes me want to howl, break things, pull noses, tweak ears, screech.

  John Colton

  Pain, Broken, Rose

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• There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular support by promises of material gain. We cannot make peace by mere appeal to greed. We must give the peoples of the world something to live for as well as something to live on.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Leadership, Spiritual, Government

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