Rising Quotes - page 3

Fading, with the Night, the memory of a dead love, and the withered leaves of a blighted hope, and the sickly repinings and moody regrets that numb the best energies of the soul: and rising, broadening, rolling upward like a living flood, the manly resolve, and the dauntless will, and the heavenward gaze of faith - the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen! "Look Eastward! Aye, look Eastward!" (Lewis Carroll)
It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur véritable", Fr.) . Any attempt to rise up (or at rising up, - "s'élever", Fr.) outwardly above others, or to want (or wish) to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace ("suppléer", Fr.) in that way (.... in French "par là", Fr.) to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself. View quote
African Spir
In ancient times, any man rising up above the common people tried to shape his life according to his principles; it is no longer like than now; it is (because) for the ancients, moral was a principle of inner life, whereas in our days, most of the time one is content to adhere to an official moral, that we recognize in theory, but that one does not care to put into practice. View quote
African Spir
The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or dominate) the instincts of his physical nature, the more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent. View quote
African Spir
Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer. View quote
George Croly
Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
Let us go in the fog is rising. View quote
Emily Dickinson
If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. View quote
Isaac Watts
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. View quote
Vince Lombardi
Fair daffadills, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early rising sun Has not attained his noon. (Robert Herrick (poet))
Heaven's help is better than early rising. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
The victory of the Cuban Revolution will be a tangible demonstration before all the Americas that peoples are capable of rising up, that they can rise up by themselves right under the very fangs of the monster. View quote
Che Guevara
Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are gone Like twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne. View quote
Francis Quarles
When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited. View quote
Isa Bowman
My primary mission as President will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages right here in the United States... From my first day in office to my last! Especially in places that for too long have been left out and left behind. View quote
Hillary Clinton
The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction. View quote
William Baziotes
Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely. View quote
Stanisław Lem
As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops. View quote
Shunroku Hata
The wind is rising on the sea,The windy white foam-dancers leap;And the sea moans uneasily,And turns to sleep, and cannot sleep. View quote
Arthur Symons
I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no other man than that I am. (Sophocles)
It sometimes strikes me how immensely fortunate I am that each day should take its place in my life, either reddened with the rising and setting sun, or refreshingly cool with deep, dark clouds, or blooming like a white flower in the moonlight. What untold wealth! View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar. View quote
John Milton
The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
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