My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
We still have it in our power to rise above the fears, imagined and real, and to shoulder the great burdens which… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
We have thought of peace as passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the… — Frank Partnoy Copy Share Image
...rise above selfishness. This includes spiritual selfishness, when one looks toward personal edification and strengthening and has no other interest than one's… — Hans B. Ringger Copy Share Image
I heard a story about a woman who grew up in Texas. When she was having trouble in her life, she would… — William Hudson O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Every issue of the paper presents an opportunity and a duty to say something courageous and true; to rise above the mediocre… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
While I felt very much a Southerner as a child, being Jewish gave me an outsider's perspective. People look at region in… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above… — Eddie Murphy Copy Share Image
Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from… — Tim Finn Copy Share Image
