Erect Quotes

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Ronald Reagan

Mind, Human, Around

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Mahatma Gandhi

Broken, Able, Stand

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Strength, Eyes, Others

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
Germaine Greer

Pain, Spiritual, May

At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
Ted Nugent

Sober, Remain, Clean

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Emily Bronte

Home, Giving, Charity

Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose flag is loved while other flags are only feared.
William Jennings Bryan

Around, While, Loved

I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be the spot for the shoes of the month.
Sandra Bullock

Love, Art, Fashion

Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Woman, Treat, Child

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Douglas Horton

Others, Stands, Fallen

Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
Charles Eastman

God, Men, Among

The closer Iraq approaches freedom and democracy, the more impediments and barriers the terrorists will erect.
Howard Coble

Freedom, Democracy, Iraq

In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.
Charles Lyell

Different, Both, Natural

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
Thomas Reed

Men, Done, Reason

The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.
Davidson Black

Age, Dating, Thinking

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