Rise Above Quotes

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

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

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.

I began to realize that when you are at peace with your Maker you can, if not ignore human criticism, at least rise above it.

You will never rise above the image you have of yourself in your own mind.

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.

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance.

Emotional pain makes me want to isolate. Or hit back. It's very tough to rise above my natural inclinations. I'm always working on this.

Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.

The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.

Most bloggers who rise above the clutter are quite often prolific -they work hard, not just writing content but networking, engaging in Social Media and more.

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

I wanna run through the halls of my high school, I wanna scream at the top of my lungs. I just found out there's no such thing as the real world, just a lie you've got to rise above.

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...

I have always been able to rise above the expectations.

Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.

PRACTICE OF THE Art of Peace enables you to rise above praise or blame, and it frees you from attachment to this and that.

You cannot expect your team to rise above your example.

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

I knew these false attacks would come. I knew this day would arrive, it's only a question of when. And I knew the American people would rise above it and vote for the future they deserve.

We had some adverse conditions in the '60s, in the '70s and the '80s. The agency has risen above that in the past and will rise above that again.

People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

Do you think its possible to live without wanting to put your name on your paintings? To belong to a group so securely you don't need to rise above it?

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.

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.

I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics.

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

The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.

Power is something that is not really visible. Some people have the power to rise above circumstance. Sociological factors and DNA are not all that determine success. It is power.

Rise above the limited conditions of pleasure and pain, success and failure, happiness and sorrow, that all the countless unenlightened beings in creation are slaves to.

One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

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

The effectiveness of your work will never rise above your ability to lead and influence others.

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?

I greatly admired Gypsy [Rose Lee] for being able to rise above her circumstances; I was terrified of her; I thought she was generous; I thought she was brilliant; I thought she was cruel.

If you breathed deep and set your mind to it, you could rise above your anger.

Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.

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.

There are always things that you see that are pretty tough, sure. But what keeps you going is when you see people rise above toughness and rise above really hard conditions, and make something of it.

The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.

It is our fundamental belief in the power of hope that has allowed us to rise above the voices of doubt and division, of anger and fear that we have faced in our own lives and in the life of America.

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.

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego, but in the revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions.

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

Doubt is probably the biggest obstacle to overcome. Once you rise above doubt, you are on your way to success.

We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake. p. 174

You won't often find me in a pair of killer heels: my heel height doesn't rise above two and a half inches, as I would just fall over!