Bootstraps Quotes

25 quotes by 23 authors

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. — Thurgood Marshall
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
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
Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiquÃ©s assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures… — Peter Watts
I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible â€” I saw this guy do it once in Cirque… — Stephen Colbert
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
But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps. — Idries Shah
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
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
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
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
Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back — Roy Wilkins
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
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
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
Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. — Vladimir Lenin
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
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
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
Itâ€™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.

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