Own Bootstraps Quotes
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. — Vladimir Lenin
- 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.
- Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps. — Peter Abrahams