Quotation Explorer - 'Raise'

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. - Voltaire
In deep silence, raise your consciousness. Now feel the profound joy of life. - Debasish Mridha
Sometimes we forego things not because we do not want them but because we can't afford to raise them at the moment - Ludiah Mong'are
It takes a society to raise a generation. - David Berman
Unclutter your life. Unclutter your home. We feel best when everything and everyone around us is in harmony and in balance.The peace and the beauty of your home will raise you up, and give energy to your goals. - Eileen Anglin
[...]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force. - Plato
I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles livedBut there's no money, too much spent today / I had a guest over and we sat together. - Friedrich Hölderlin
Stop falling for those who won't raise you up in the future. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to the next level. - Roopleen
When your critics raise hell keep building your heaven. - Matshona Dhliwayo
True religion must raise to work at the bar and the bench, on the couch and on the streets, in the cottage of the poor man and in the penthouse of the entrepreneur, with the fisherman that is catching fish and with the students that are studying. - Abhijit Naskar
That kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up glory - Cassandra Clare
Think about it: Here you are, two ambitious, opinionated, stressed-out adults, trying to live in the same house together, prosper together, maybe raise kids together, and, with any luck, take pleasure in spending the rest of your natural-born lives together. This is not easy. - Paula Szuchman ; Jenny Anderson
Today, a successful Congressman has the fundraising ability of a hooker trying to raise cab fare home....
Don’t just raise the bar… Raise the roof. - A.D. Posey
You will either profit by or pay for what your children become. raise them properly. - Darnell Lamont Walker
Don't raise me up, I am but a messenger. - Jimi Hendrix
Experience God, don't raise a wall of dogmas between you and Him. - Stefan Emunds
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs. - Barack Obama
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today my own government. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Trust your journey, trust the process, raise your energy and the right people will come into your life - Steven Aitchison
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. - Kurt Vonnegut
No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind. - Dick Gregory
It takes a female to have a baby,It takes a woman to raise a child,It takes a mother to raise them correctly,It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world. - Shannon L. Alder
Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time. - Abi bin Abi Taleb
Aim to be the blue ribbon best. Develop yourself from practice, to become exceptional. Raise your standards and be the best. - Mark F. LaMoure
Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything. - Jalaluddin Rumi
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it. - Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
Raise your children with right values and education. You may end up living frugal but you will die rich; else you will live rich but die poor. - Aditya Ajmera
We know the end is overrated, we'll become the walls we raise. We don't believe enough, but we still care. - Matchbox 20
It takes a village to raise a child. - Hillary Rodham Clinton
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. - Unknown
Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't. - Haruki Murakami
When we raise our children to Shine, the future becomes brighter! - Brigette Foresman
If a nation and any nation on this earth could raise up the standard of personal responsibility in their society, you will in no time see a nation of virtuous people, developed and civilized. - Sunday Adelaja
Religion has kept all of us suffocated, I can’t raise my voice you can’t raise your voice, still they call us fundamentalists. - M.F. Moonzajer
It is not how much money or luxury you avail a child that counts, but how well you nurture and raise the child to become useful, and a more productive individual in the society that matters - Abdulzeez Henry Musa
Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.) - Neil Gaiman
I don't think you really belong here, Aviger." Xoxarle nodded wisely, slowly.Aviger shrugged, and did not raise his eyes. "I don't think any of us do.""The brave belong where they decide." Some harshness entered the Idiran's voice. - Iain Banks
In a culture of hyper-consumption the advertising industry has brainwashed many people into believing they can raise their status just by driving a particular brand of whatever it is they are pushing at you. - Stephen Richards
Until you raise the bar on yourself people will treat you as a commodity - Bernard Kelvin Clive
My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument." Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right. - Desmond Tutu
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children - Lewis B. Frumkes
First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero. - Amit Kalantri
Brutality and injustice made us raise our hands towards the sky for years; God didn’t respond us, but drones came to our rescue. - M.F. Moonzajer
If a bloke gave you a hundred quid for a book you can bet your life it’s his way, but if all the poor and suffering people raise their hats to you for writing it - that’s different; it makes it worthwhile then. - Alan Marshall
Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. - P.J. O'Rourke
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument. - Samuel Johnson
It takes a village to raise an idiot.
The women’s entire education should be planned in relation to men. To please men, to be useful to them, to win their love and respect, to raise them as children, care for them as adults… these are women’s duties in all ages and these are what they should be taught from childhood. - Jacques Rousseau
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. - Norman Mailer
The church needs to raise up the Moses’ and last days deliverers. - Sunday Adelaja
Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically. - Philip Pullman
The world is more than black and white. Seeing everything in color helps me raise my spirit and find my happy. Life is meant to be lived in color! - Jodi Livon
Life gives us the music but we can raise or lower the volume as we like - Natalia Lizardo
You are the sunshine, so raise above the clouds of anger, hate, resentment and intolerance to fill the world with beauty of love. - Debasish Mridha
It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book. - Sara Sheridan
Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him. - Matshona Dhliwayo
There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children. - Marianne Williamson
It is vital that parents have the courage to speak up and intervene before Satan succeeds. President Boyd K. Packer has taught that when morality is involved, we have both the right and the obligation to raise a warning voice. - Larry R. Lawrence
Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did. - Walter Mondale
God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving. - Randy Alcorn
Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place. - Aaron Sorkin
Never raise your voice but raise yourself and your passion for love and life. - Debasish Mridha
Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. raise the rent and kick them out! - Robert Tew
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. - Robert Orben
I'm not going to raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for the programs I've recommended. - Bill Clinton
Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to. - Rossana Condoleo
The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality. - William R. Inge
Raise, Awake and take stand. Draw the path for others. Be a Leader. - Vivek Modi
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart - Alexander Pope
It's not the world that needs to change - it's our consciousness we must raise - Rasheed Ogunlaru
A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily. - Dan Seligman
Improve yourself. Raise your attitude up to excellence for success. Get going now and create the reality. - Mark LaMoure
Raise your love so high that anger cannot reach it. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Unknown Author 909
Each child is a unique person, so raise your child taking this fact intoconsideration. - Eraldo Banovac
Self-esteem is the switch in the circuit of your life that dims or brightness of your future. Bring it low and you don't shine your light; raise it up and you brighten the corner where you are. - Israelmore Ayivor
Her mindset will raise your children not her body or good looks - claris mary
Whenever enyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. - René Descartes
Blake gave Selena a nudge "Remember what I taught you, itsy-bitsy-babe-ette"She flashed him a mischievous grin and raise the hose." Boom goes the dynamite!"-Demons In Disguise - A&E Kirk
Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhoods. - Pam Leo
It takes 43 muscles to frown and 3 to raise the middle finger. - Mariel
Don't Raise your Anger into a War, Raise it into a Plan - Noormohammad Bhuayan
Like the morning sun, raise the brightness of your love to include everyone. - Debasish Mridha
The first secret of success: Believe in Yourself. Nothing changes in your life until you believe you can do things that are important to you. And if you have a low opinion of yourself, nobody else is likely to raise it. - Steve Goodier
Raise your thoughts, not your fists. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success). - Friedrich Nietzsche
You have only one chance to raise your child. - Jackie Kennedy
I made up my mind that not only would I become a millionaire, but that I would also raise up millionaires from members of my church - Sunday Adelaja
If darkness surrounds you, look for the light. If you can't see it, raise your head up. You may be surrounded by darkness but it does not cover you on top. Let the light shine down on you and let it lead the way out of darkness. - Ann Marie Aguilar
We raise predators by treating children as prey. - Stefan Molyneux
We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. - Barack Obama
So celebrate what you're accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked. - George Gilder
In this world, there is nothing that is right. Anything that people raise objection to, is wrong. Do people raise objection in every matter? - Dada Bhagwan
Raise your children to love and embrace others. Tell them they are beautiful; they may grow up to be stars one day, and "beautiful" will never mean as much in a magazine as it will coming from you. - Kaiden Blake
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old. - George Fabricius
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. - Chinese Proverb
A client of mine once joked, If youremployer likes you, the rest is history, the raise and everythingelse will come. That intangible attitude in the workplace is whatsets apart those who get promoted and those who don’t. - Derric Yuh Ndim
Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument. - Desmond Tutu's father
Raise a smile and lower stress - Benny Bellamacina