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Everything rises and falls on leadership. -- John C. Maxwell
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. -- John F. Kennedy
We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation. -- Barack Obama
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. -- Lord Acton
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. -- Martin Scorsese
The CEO is, by far, the most important decision for a company... The company is going to rise and fall with the CEO. -- Carl Icahn
As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system. -- George Soros
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors. -- Rumi
Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things. -- Gautama Buddha
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride that's both scary and exciting at the same time - the rise and fall of which defines our journey. -- SebastiAn
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet. -- Virginia Woolf
It is clear that the nations of the world now can only rise and fall together. It is not a question of one nation winning at the expense of another. We must all help one another or all perish together. -- Carl Sagan
In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can. -- John Selden
When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us - birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all. -- Jack Kornfield
There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. -- Miyamoto Musashi
I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years haunted the dreams of children everywhere. During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism. As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows. What will you do on your journey? -- Ronald Reagan
I think you have to have your own expectations of yourself and your own sense of purpose and your own intrinsic pleasure in the task. If you don't, you will drive yourself off a cliff because your fortunes will rise and fall, and if you identify too closely with that, you really will go insane. -- Sarah Ruhl
For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an umbilical cord, a connection to the outside world, the giver of pleasure and pain. It shapes the day, is the moment, inexorable as the tide, toward which all the hours rise and fall. -- Mameve Medwed
Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun. -- Edward Abbey
No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and fall; it's all preparation for better things. You must stretch, reach, grow into your goodness. Without the preparation we receive through adversity, disappointment, confusion, or pain, we could not appreciate the goodness when it arrives. -- Iyanla Vanzant
A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master as French, Spanish, or any elective second language. Like Chinese, the fine points of bickering can be discerned in the subtle rise and fall of the voice. If not practiced properly, bickering can be mistaken for its less sophisticated counterpart: whining. -- Linda Sunshine
As the pen rises from the page between words, so the walker's feet rise and fall between paces, and as the deer continues to run as it bounds from the earth and the dolphin continues to swim even as it leaps again and again from the sea, so writing and wayfaring are continuous activities, a running stitch, a persistence of the same seam or stream. -- Robert Macfarlane
If you fall, rise up, shake off the dust and try again. -- Gladys Bejani
One can never "fall" in love, you must rise to it's level of consciousness. Love is not a feeling, it's a state of MIND! -- T.C. Carrier
There is a rise after every fall. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't fall in love rise with it -- Amit Abraham
Don't Fall in love, Rise in Love! -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
All live to die, and rise to fall. -- Christopher Marlowe
You can fall, but you can rise also. -- Angelique Kidjo
Fall if you will, but rise you must. -- James Joyce
Rise or Fall you must not stop doing. -- pavankumar nagaraj
In fall, God is remembered; in rise, forgotten. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It is easy to fall, but hard to rise. -- Dann Moudry
Do not fall in love, but rise in love -- Swami Parthasarathy
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -- William Shakespeare
We rise and fall as one people, one nation. -- Barack Obama
Man's will and God's grace rise and fall together -- Evelyn Underhill
Our republic and its press will rise and fall together. -- Joseph Pulitzer
Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides. -- Peter Benchley
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. -- Joseph Pulitzer
If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else. -- Ben Harper
What defines us is how well we rise after we fall. -- Zig Ziglar
Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. -- Philip Massinger
You've got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone. -- Charles Bukowski
People rise and fall on the basis of the makings of institutions. -- John Henrik Clarke
Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations. -- Jack Levin
How we handle adversity determines the chances if we either fall or rise. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Fall forward, in your failing, and rise up with a soul on fire! -- Michael Beckwith
The rise and fall of Tony Montana, and what a way to go out. -- James Rolfe
You can only fall in love once the next time you rise with it -- Amit Abraham
The world is a wheel. When we rise or fall, we do it together. -- Cassandra Clare
Failure is only a temporary fall. You must rise up any time you fall. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Empires rise and fall like the abdomen of God. It's just the universe breathing. -- Wes Nisker
The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation. -- Chiang Kai-shek
Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise. -- Jean de la Bruyere
If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them. -- Joan Robinson
There can be no rise in the value of labour without a fall of profits. -- David Ricardo
Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall. -- Davy Crockett
Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight. -- Shannon L. Alder
A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall. -- James Patterson
There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief. -- Wasif Ali Wasif
An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging. -- Stanley Wolpert
All we do is to rise and to fall; and in between these two activities, we sleep! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies. -- Henry David Thoreau
For men rise or fall based entirely on what the women in their lives demand of them. -- Kim Wright
We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. -- Archilochus
As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate. -- Malcolm Potts
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall. -- Paul Harris
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. -- Jesse Jackson
Leaders are defined by the decisions they make ... Leaders rise and fall by the decisions they make. -- Mario Daniel Vega
Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world, and light is all. -- Theodore Roethke
Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall. -- Muhammad Ali
Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it. -- Ron Suskind
Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind? -- Myron Uhlberg
Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel. -- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
When there is painThere is sadnessWhen there is sadness There is hatredOne who fall from this will never rise up -- Ax Vasto
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color. -- Edvard Munch
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color -- Edvard Munch
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall. -- Joanna Scott
The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall. -- Len Goodman
When you rise quickly like a swallow, you must keep in mind that you may also fall fast like a stone! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits. -- Nick Rahall
Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them. -- Peter Beinart
Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again. -- Josh Billings
There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die. -- Kevin J. Anderson
Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers. -- Lord Chesterfield
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. -- Stefan Zweig
Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported. -- Alex Berenson
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life. -- Kenneth Clark
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often. -- Johannes Tauler
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf. -- Wendell Berry
I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing. -- Moby
Ultimately, there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation. -- Barack Obama
Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet. -- James Russell Lowell
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans. -- Frederick Douglass
Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines. -- James Lane Allen
The success of a leader will rise or fall on the decisions that he or she makes about the people around him or her. -- Tim Stevens
I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall. -- Judith Jamison
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state. -- David Ricardo
Iâ??ve seen the nations rise and fall. Iâ??ve heard their stories, heard them all, but loveâ??s the only engine of survival. -- Leonard Cohen
Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good. -- Margaret Haddix
I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what. -- Peter Capaldi
Neither machines, nor the commodities made by them, rise in real value, but all commodities made by machines fall, and fall in proportion to their durability. -- David Ricardo
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun. -- Thomas A. Edison
Blames after each failure keep lessons unlearned. When you fall, rise up quickly and learn your lessons... Blames will never make any change; applied lessons will do! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few. -- Carlos P. Romulo
Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous. -- Sara Zarr
People will become what you think of them. See them for their beauty and they will rise up. See them for their darkness, and they will fall. -- Amy Chan
One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes. -- Stephen Kinzer
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
Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America-we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture. -- Stephen Colbert
The dead are happy, having no desire. I rise and fall, and rise and fall again, Something is in me, famishing for bread, Baffled and unappeasable as fire. -- Arthur Symons
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. -- Lord Byron
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power. -- Thomas Malthus
The most valuable lessons in life do not come when you are walking or running. They come when you fall down. You better take them and rise up! -- Israelmore Ayivor
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. -- Joseph Addison
Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture." -- Stephen Colbert
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure. -- John Boyd Orr

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