Raise Quotes
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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
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Often have brief words laid men low and then raise them up.
Sophocles
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God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.
William Romaine
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If you want to raise your standard of living, raise your standard of giving.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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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
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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
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Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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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
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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
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise...
John Milton
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If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
Antonio Porchia
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There is no greater ordeal for a gifted men than to raise a son
Conn Iggulden
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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
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For, in the language of Heraclitus, the virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud. But the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapor, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.
Plutarch
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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
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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
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Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.
Andy Hargreaves
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It's not my business to raise anybody else's kids. Mom and Dad got to do all that.
Jordan Michael Houston
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Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.
Joseph Glanvill
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She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.
Catherynne M. Valente
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No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.
Archibald Alexander Hodge
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In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads out in manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine and by which the divine can reveal itself to man.
Rene Daumal