Rise Quotes

Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day. (Herodotus)
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. View quote
Washington Irving
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead. View quote
James Thurber
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. View quote
Robert Frost
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. View quote
Algernon Charles Swinburne
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. View quote
David Hume
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? (Carl Sagan)
So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. View quote
Aldous Huxley
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. View quote
Laurence J. Peter
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. View quote
John F. Kennedy
I think the slain care little if they sleep or rise again. View quote
Aeschylus
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Reality is something you rise above. View quote
Liza Minnelli
Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise. View quote
Maya Angelou
Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person. View quote
Gerard Way
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. (Robert Browning)
An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters. View quote
Henry Clay
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. View quote
William Congreve
Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop, to rise. View quote
Philip Massinger
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. View quote
William Blake