Quotes & Sayings About Rising Above Defeat

Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail ... the snail kept my spirit from evaporating. — Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Moreover, because the slothful mind is typically brought to its downfall gradually, when we fail to control our speech, we move on to more harsh words. Thus, at first, we are happy to speak of others kindly; afterwards, we begin to pick at the lives of those of whom we speak, and finally our tongues break into open slander against them. — Gregory The Great

Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your obedience. Nor are you a slave to others who demand your sacrifice. You choose your own goals based on your own values. Success and failure are both the necessary incentives to learn and to grow. Your action on behalf of others, or their action on behalf of you, is only virtuous when it is derived from voluntary, mutual consent. For virtue can only exist when there is free choice. — Ken Schoolland

The heart is what matters most of all — Kris Kristofferson

I like a good boy, but sometimes you get bored. — Katy Perry

Girls laugh. Their hair giggles down their back. — Catherynne M Valente

So virtuous are the programs said to be - pensions for the elderly, compensation for the unemployed, medicine for the sick, and assistance for the disabled - few dare ring the alarm of looming economic catastrophe that threatens to destabilize the civil society. — Mark Levin

I wanted to make something that reminded people of the way albums used to feel. I wanted something as good as the stuff put out by the Bomb Squad, or Dr. Dre and his production crew, or 'A Tribe Called Quest.' I miss albums like those. — Busta Rhymes

Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed. — Walter F. Mondale

Perhaps she loved me, in her own way, as I loved her, in mine. But we didn't know one another. Perhaps because I never allowed her to know me, or I never took any steps towards getting to know her. We spent our lives like two strangers who see each other every single day and greet one another out of politeness. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I wished upon every damned star in the sky for a second chance.
For something I could do to truly make it right when I'd done her so fucking wrong.
To be good enough for this girl who was so obviously created for me. — A.L. Jackson