Rise Above Quotes

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Humanity, Living, Until

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander Hamilton

Nature, Human, Liberty

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Mason Cooley

Moment, Compassion, Stop

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

Angry, May, Happen

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

Great, Minds, Rise

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Muhammad Iqbal

Life, Light, Matter

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
Mike Huckabee

Rise, Truly, Above

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
Nancy Lopez

Yourself, Judge, Everything

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
Georges Bernanos

Pride, Order, Rise

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

True, Cannot, Moral

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

Truth, Water, Rise

Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli

Reality, Rise, Above

I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
Sammy Hagar

Everything, Fighting, Rise

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Michael Korda

Succeed, Accept, Rise

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
Buffy Sainte-Marie

Both, Rise, Above

I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
Walter Isaacson

Important, Country, Less

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.
Rosie O'Donnell

Peace, War, Rise

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

Crisis, Whether, Rise

Rise above principle and do what's right.
Joseph Heller

Rise, Above, Principle

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.
Robert Crais

Nature, Character, Struggle

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.
Robert Crais

Great, Past, Everything

I have always been able to rise above the expectations.
Kay Bailey Hutchison

Able, Rise, Above

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.
Adnan Pachachi

Political, Able, Everybody

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
Huey Long

Time, Good, Men

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
Viola Davis

Love, Hate, Humanity

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
Adlai Stevenson

May, Country, Cannot

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.
Charles Edison

Made, After, Service

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
Robert Heilbroner

Government, Alone, Failing

Rise above yourself.
Thomas Leonard

Yourself, Rise, Above

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.
Chris Anderson

Technology, Successful, After

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