Raise Quotes

• I'd like to be remembered as somebody who set out to raise a family and pay my debts and stay within all the limits of acceptable society and still make some success.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Family
  • Pay
  • Debts

• Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • No Matter
  • Raise
  • Possibilitarian

• I was a late-bloomer. For so long I was too focused on running Wolf World to sign up to play a few songs, raise a few dollars.

  

  John Kay Steppenwolf
  • Songs
  • Raise
  • Late-bloomer

• If you want to raise your standard of living, raise your standard of giving.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Giving
  • Raise

• The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

  

  Plato
  • Function
  • Raise
  • Region

• Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Band
  • Raise
  • Finger

• There is no greater ordeal for a gifted men than to raise a son

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Men
  • Son
  • Gifted

• However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Voice
  • Problems
  • Judges

• Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise...

  

  John Milton
  • Spirit
  • Fame
  • Raise

• I think that the sheer fact that music can raise certain questions or put topics on the agenda has in itself already an effect. Just like any other art of cultural expression can do that - books, films, photos, painting - it can bring people together who share certain ideals, who don't find their ideas expressed properly, or even expressed at all, in the mainstream media.

  

  G.W. Sok
  • Music
  • Questions
  • Fact

• I've always moved into a band where the musicians are a lot more capable than me. It's always been a conscious effort and it makes you raise your game.

  

  John Verity Argent
  • Game
  • Musicians
  • Capable

• I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

  

  Catherine McCormack
  • Want
  • Explore
  • Questions

• I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Government
  • Violence
  • Voice

• If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Eyes
  • Raise

• Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

  

  Joseph Glanvill
  • Raise
  • Discourage
  • Pretences

• Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

  

  Andy Hargreaves
  • Raise
  • Gap
  • Bar

• It's not my business to raise anybody else's kids. Mom and Dad got to do all that.

  

  Jordan Michael Houston
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Raise

• Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

  

  Rumi
  • Shine
  • Open
  • Turn

• Hikmah Wisdom is knowing when to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

  

  Boonaa Mohammed
  • Wisdom
  • Voice
  • Eyebrow

• Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

  

  Ryan Phillippe
  • Important
  • Children
  • Raise

• I have something to say. I know how to do something. I’m doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Hand
  • Doing
  • Something

• My doctors say the more I continue to push, the more I can continue to raise that bar, the better I can get.

  

  Chris Pronger
  • Better
  • Continue
  • Push

• I'm really sort of cautious about being too didactic. To me there are writers that can do that, but I think they drown in that after a while. I do think the job of a writer is to raise questions and nobody likes the questions being asked.

  

  Adam Braver
  • Questions
  • Writers
  • Raise

• The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Philosophers
  • Raise
  • Miseries

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