Top 40 Rise Above Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Rise Above Quotes from famous people such as Debbie Ford, Craig Kielburger, Martin Luther King, Jr., Boney Kapoor, Parker Palmer, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.
Debbie Ford
I met children who want to be social workers, lawyers, doctors, community activists and soldiers so they can help their people rise above still difficult economic circumstances.
Craig Kielburger
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.
Patriotism cannot be instilled inside anybody, it just happens to be there. And it can rise above any notion, any emotion.
Boney Kapoor
Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: ‘Does my life have meaning and purpose?’ ‘Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?’ ‘Whom and what shall I serve?’ ‘Whom and what can I trust?’ ‘How can I rise above my fears?’
Parker Palmer
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
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Mason Cooley
I’d argue that in the last few decades in America, when people are asked what they hope the future will look like, they still turn to ‘Star Trek.’ They hope we put aside our differences and come together as humanity, that we rise above war, poverty, racism, and other problems that have beset us.
Ronald D. Moore
Great leaders find a way to rise above politics while at the same time keeping their party’s loyalists in the fold.
Mercedes Schlapp
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
As leaders, we need to rise above petty politics and lead, rather than follow, the various interests and pressure groups in our respective countries.
Hassan Rouhani
It’s certainly true that presidents have confidantes who rise above what you would call just staff.
Jon Lovett
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
No actor can rise above the script of the film.
Paresh Rawal
Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.
Robert Crais
There is undoubtedly a lot of pressure that comes with recognition, which can be a good thing and bad thing all at the same time. But if you stay focused and don’t lose sight of what you’re doing and who you are, you can rise above it.
Prabal Gurung
Every civilization is founded on sins – every single one. Dispossession, violence, appropriation. What distinguishes civilizations are the ones who rise above it.
Charles Krauthammer
On certain issues, one has to rise above party politics for the country to run.
Amit Shah
You won’t often find me in a pair of killer heels: my heel height doesn’t rise above two and a half inches, as I would just fall over!
Twiggy
In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don’t choose to do so more often.
Paul Bloom
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander Hamilton
Judges certainly have political connections and strong political views, but that doesn’t mean they can’t rise above politics when they hear cases. We expect them to, and the law presumes they do.
George T. Conway III
Soaps are a double-edged sword. There can be prejudice from some writers and producers who feel you will lower the currency of their work if you’ve been in one. You have to rise above such ludicrous prejudice.
Sarah Lancashire
Lift others and yourself as you rise above this mess of comparison. Thank God for those who embraced their true selves and gave us gifts that only they could give: from Steve Jobs to Michael Jackson to Ray Charles to Mark Twain. There are so many more, and the list goes on.
Grace Gealey
Rise above yourself.
Thomas Leonard
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions… Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Muhammad Iqbal
We want to blame people who have brain disorders – they should somehow be able to magically rise above it. It’s a profound misconception.
Drew Pinsky
We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
Adlai Stevenson II
Life isn’t fair. It’s true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.
Harvey Mackay
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
Richard Branson
No one man can rise above the masses or the condition of his people.
Larry Johnson
It's no secret that in the NFL playoffs, the pressure's

It’s no secret that in the NFL playoffs, the pressure’s on. The guys who can rise above that pressure and play mistake-free when it counts the most build legends for themselves: Think Joe Montana, Tom Brady, or Adam Vinatieri.
Mark Schlereth
I was bullied as a child and used humor to rise above it.
Vermin Supreme
You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.
Lauren Bacall
Rise above principle and do what’s right.
Joseph Heller
True, most Americans give lip service to the proposition that even the most exalted among us have their flaws, but we are eager to believe that presidents manage to rise above the limitations that beset the rest of us.
Robert Dallek
I get a lot of email, so if you’re sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, ‘Hey!’
Robert Scoble
I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.
Allegra Huston
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
Women are against women, and men are against women. Like, women have to rise above so much to get ahead. I feel guilty that sometimes I hate being a woman. I hate it because there’s so much weight on your shoulders at all times. Maybe I’m just really sensitive.
Natalie Prass