“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
“Coke is pure kick. It lifts you straight up, a mechanical lift that starts leaving you as soon as you feel it”
— William S. Burroughs, book Junkie
Junkie (1953)
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Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) founder of aikido
As quoted in Aikido Shugyo (1991) by Gōzō Shioda, p. 79
Rainer Maria Rilke book Letters to a Young Poet
Letter Nine (4 November 1904)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
Context: All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom.
Wong Shun Leung (1935–1997) martial artist
Wong Shun Leung Applied the Principle of a One-Step Action to Execute a Kick <br class="br">Kicking and Kneeing <br class="br">Source: Comments From Wong Shun Leung and Tsui Shan Ting, by Ray Van Raamsdonk http://www.springtimesong.com/wcqanda.htm
“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Actually a statement by William J. H. Boetcker known as "The Ten Cannots" (1916), this has often been misattributed to Lincoln since 1942 when a leaflet containing quotes by both men was published.
Misattributed
Context: You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
“Wing Chun doesn't like to lift the knee first and then kick …..”
Wong Shun Leung (1935–1997) martial artist
Wong Shun Leung <br class="br">Wisdom Quotes <br class="br">Source: Comments From Wong Shun Leung and Tsui Shan Ting, by Ray Van Raamsdonk http://www.springtimesong.com/wcqanda.htm
Will Cuppy (1884–1949) American writer
Footnote: It probably could not fall down if it tried.
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part I: It Seems There Were Two Egyptians, Cheops, or Khufu