An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Mason Cooley
Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
Nancy Lopez
Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.
Adnan Pachachi
I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.
Charles Edison
I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
Sammy Hagar
I think right now we need to look back at the founding values of our country. Rise above partisanship, be less bitter when it comes to important matters that have to be solved.
Walter Isaacson
If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.
Jerry Bruckheimer
It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
Georges Bernanos
It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.
Mike Huckabee
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
James Connolly
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli
Rise above principle and do what's right.
Joseph Heller
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Muhammad Iqbal
Rise above yourself.
Thomas Leonard
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
Viola Davis
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone.
Robert Heilbroner
The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.
Chris Anderson
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