Rise Quotes
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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
Francis Bacon
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People always - when you rise, whenever you're getting to a point where you're a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren't going to like you.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Michael Korda
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Having played in both competitions over recent years I believe that although standards continue to rise in Super League, the NRL is a better competition.
Adrian Morley
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Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so..
Georges Bernanos
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It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur véritable,", Fr.) . Any attempt to rise up (or at rising up, - "s'élever", Fr.) outwardly above others, or to want or wish to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace ("suppléer", Fr.) in that way (.... in French "par là", Fr.) to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.
African Spir
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Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.
Nicholas Breton
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The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Honore de Balzac
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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou
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The stag in limpid currents with surprise Sees crystal branches on his forehead rise.
Ambrose Philips
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Music does not express any idea, but it gives rise to thousands.
Alessandro Manzoni
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One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Members of the non-ruling class who want to rise in their profession through sheer competence try at once to avoid the ruling class’s rituals while guarding against infringing its prejudices. Averse to wheedling, they tend to think that exams should play a major role in getting or advance in jobs, that records of performance—including academic ones—should be matters of public record [common in other countries like France and India], and that professional disputes should be settled by open argument.
Angelo Codevilla
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Rise with the hour for which you were made.
Georgia Douglas Johnson
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It's not that I've suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I'm still shaking. But... We don't have to let those fears stop us. What's most important is that we try to rise above our weakness.
Natsuki Takaya
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Only by knowing how far we have fallen will we understand what it is to rise again.
Alexander C. Irvine
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Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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We cut to the bare bone. That's how we got to this point, ... Expenses continue to rise, but revenues are staying in a straight line.
F. Thomson Leighton
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The destiny of the human race is to widen the gap separating it from the lower races of animals. Any code of morality which retains its permanence and authority after the conditions of existence which gave rise to it have changed, works against this upward progress of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.
William Blake