Rise Quotes - page 2

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. (Gustave Flaubert)
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. View quote
Jack London
Frankly, despite my distaste of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers. View quote
Luis Buñuel
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. View quote
William Shakespeare
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. View quote
Edward Abbey
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Early to Bed and Early to Rise is a Bad Rule for any one who wishes to become acquainted with our most Prominent and Influential People. (George Ade)
What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing. View quote
Alexander Pope
Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade Whereer you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. View quote
Alexander Pope
I have, all my life long, been lying till noon yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. View quote
Juvenal
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. View quote
Joseph Addison
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks. View quote
John C. Calhoun
Rise above principle and do what's right. View quote
Joseph Heller
My sun sets to rise again. View quote
Robert Browning
A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. View quote
Robert Browning
Investment in human capital accounts for most of the impressive rise in the real earnings per worker. (Theodore Schultz)
To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise. View quote
Traci Bingham
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
All live to die, and rise to fall. View quote
Christopher Marlowe