Rise Above Quotes

Christ rises above all things.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

Don't let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible

Purusing peace means rising above one's own wants, needs, and emotions.

Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself, but, when the speaker rises above him, jealousy is aroused and he begins to be incredulous.

We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.

No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.

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

I have always been able to rise above the expectations.

While I felt very much a Southerner as a child, being Jewish gave me an outsider's perspective. People look at region in a variety of ways, and I always paid attention to food. Food rises above other things for me. From a young age, I saw food as a barometer of cultural identity, and I was fascinated by how people defined themselves through their food traditions.

Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.

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.

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.

We have to fight terror in one voice, rising above politics. That is when the common people will feel secure.

Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.

If we are ever truly going to find purpose and meaning in our lives, we first have to rise above the trees to rediscover the forest - we have to understand what God is doing in the world and how we fit in.

You cannot expect your team to rise above your example.

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...

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

It is important to rise above rationalizations and make the best choices.

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

The talkers are rising above the thinkers.

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

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

One challenge of our adventure on earth is to rise above dead systems...wars, nations, destructions...to refuse to be a part of them, and express the highest selves we know how to be.

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

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.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Rise above principal and do what's right.

No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most

When everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should be rising above that noise to take time and invest in what they're doing. It just becomes about hustling and grabbing attention.

If you strip the horrors of history from history, the flip side of that is you strip the nobility of rising above such horrors.

An evil man is a saint of the future. See good in everything. Destroy the evil-finding quality. Develop the good-finding quality. Rise above good and evil.

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

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

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

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

To you, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism look very different, but to me they look the same. Many of you would say that something like Buddhism doesn't even belong on the list, since it doesn't link salvation to divine worship, but to me this is just a quibble. Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism all perceive human beings as flawed, wounded creatures in need of salvation, and all rely fundamentally on revelations that spell out how salvation is to be attained, either by departing from this life or rising above it.

What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.

The best moments on earth are those during which we meditate upon heavenly things in general, when we recognize or defend the truth, that heavenly dweller and denizen. Only then do we truly live. Therefore, the essential interests of the soul require that we should oftener rise above the earth, upwards to heaven, where is our true life, our true country, which shall have no end.

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.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

But rather than trying to understand and rise above them, as leaders should, the [presedential] campaigns have often simply channeled these negative emotions. This has made the substance and tone of much of the discussion not only unpleasant and uninspiring, but the acrimony and divisiveness are not healthy for our democracy.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.