Rising Quotes

• The greatest accomplishment is not in never failing, but in rising again after you fall.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Success, Failure

  17 Copy quote
• 

  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1001 Copy quote

• Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.

  Paul Krugman

  Inequality

  "Knowledge Isn’t Power" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. February 23, 2015.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Inspirational, Moving On, Spiritual

  174 Copy quote

• The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Angel, Moon, Night

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.11, Harvard University Press

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hate brings me to my knees, love gets me on my feet.

  Andre Agassi

  Love, Inspirational, Hate

  Twitter post from Apr 08, 2015

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.

  Nathanael Greene

  Art, Military, War

  Nathanael Greene, Richard K. Showman (2005). “The Papers of General Nathanael Greene”, University of North Carolina Press

  197 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

  111 Copy quote

• If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.

  Suzanne Weyn

  Inspirational, Life, Occasions

  51 Copy quote

• They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

  Bobby Sands

  Freedom, Heart, Army

  Bobby Sands (1998). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Mercier PressLtd

  83 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

  Dick Gregory

  Country, America, Evil

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

  284 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down

  Carl Brashear

  Motivational, Perseverance, Persistence

  134 Copy quote

• We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Phoenix, New Life, Said

  Pam Muñoz Ryan (2012). “Esperanza Rising”, p.37, Scholastic Inc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.

  Dan Simmons

  Past, Way, Buried

  5 Copy quote

• You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again.

  Alfred Wainwright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Destiny

  62 Copy quote

• Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Sports, Determination

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

  41 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  "Q&A: The Rev Jesse Jackson". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

  146 Copy quote

  Show source

• I need someone who believes that the sun will rise again but who does not fear my darkness. Someone who can point out the rocks in my way without making me a child by carrying me. Someone who can stand in thunder and watch the lightning and believe in a rainbow.

  Joe Mahoney

  Inspirational, Hope, Fear

  48 Copy quote

• If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Angel, Men, Devil

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.487

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Adventure

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.12, University of Arizona Press

  192 Copy quote

  Show source

• Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.

  Marlon Riggs

  Gay, Justice, Diversity

  60 Copy quote

• Even if I am simply one more woman laying one more brick in the foundation of a new and more humane world, it is enough to make me rise eagerly from my bed each morning and face the challenge of breaking the historic silence that has held women captive for so long.

  Judy Chicago

  Morning, Women, Long

  74 Copy quote

• I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up

  Drake

  Recovery, Rapper, Rose

  Song: Furthest Thing, 2013

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

  Evelyn Boyd Granville

  Inspiring, Education, Mean

  56 Copy quote