Bootstraps Quotes
25 quotes by 23 authors
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
— Thurgood Marshall
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It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by…
— Howard Whitley Eves
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The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so important. Sometimes those…
— Tom of Finland
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Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures…
— Peter Watts
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I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible — I saw this guy do it once in Cirque…
— Stephen Colbert
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Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose…
— Marianne Williamson
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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
— Idries Shah
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We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to…
— Jerry Bridges
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Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks…
— Julian Castro
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We at the Bureau have the most exciting and satisfying jobs in the world. In a society that stresses individual achievement - where you pull…
— Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
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I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back
— Roy Wilkins
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Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It is…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when…
— Ron Fournier
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President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by…
— Ron Fournier
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Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.
— Vladimir Lenin
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None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher,…
— Thurgood Marshall
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I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and…
— Julia Cameron
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It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who Wrote These Bootstraps Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 25 Bootstraps Quotes as follows: