Browsing Topic Best Rising Again Quotes

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I suppose everybody has a mental picture of the days of the week, some seeing them as a circle, some as an endless line, and others again, for all I know, as triangles and cubes. Mine is a wavy line proceeding to infinity, dipping to Wednesday which is the colour of old silver dark with polishing and rising again to a pale gold Sunday. This day has a feeling in my picture of warmth and light breezes and sunshine and afternoons that stretch to infinity and mornings full of far-off bells.

Crushed to earth and rising again is an author’s gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.

Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride–nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

We are like the phoenix, said Abuelita. Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.