Rise Quotes

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

~ Emmanuel Jal

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

~ Blaise Pascal

Great music will always rise to the top if you give it a chance.

~ Darius Rucker

What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.

~ Michele Bachmann

If we can reach populations in developing countries and help them understand the value of their indigenous diet and lifestyles rather than copying ours, perhaps we can reverse the exponential rise in cardiovascular disease that is plaguing them.

~ Dean Ornish

There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits.

~ David Ricardo

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

~ Isaac Asimov

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

~ Joy Page

There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.

~ Eddie Murphy

I know it is very hard to rise above the influences of party prejudice. Often, it almost drowns the sentiment of patriotism. Party rancor and party hatred are the last serpents which the genius of patriotism can crush.

~ Joseph P. Bradley

The rise of Breitbart is directly tied to being the voice of that center-right opposition. And, quite frankly, we're winning many, many victories. On the social conservative side, we're the voice of the anti-abortion movement, the voice of the traditional marriage movement, and I can tell you we're winning victory after victory after victory.

~ Stephen Bannon

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.

~ James E. Faust

The historical background is one of the easier aspects of writing a novel. Far more difficult is dreaming up the smaller, character-based scenes, scenes that rise entirely from one's own imagination.

~ Ethan Canin

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!

~ Peter Hook

A country's economic growth may be defined as a long-term rise in capacity to supply increasingly diverse economic goods to its population, this growing capacity based on advancing technology and the institutional and ideological adjustments that it demands.

~ Simon Kuznets

I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.

~ Rodney Brooks

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

~ Lord Byron

As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation.

~ Ellen Willis

I rise to taste the dawn, and find that love alone will shine today.

~ Ken Wilber

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

~ Terry Goodkind

Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.

~ Ramez Naam

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

~ David Ricardo