By His Bootstraps Quotes

#1. I think everyone has some sort of connection to Gatsby as a character ... he's created himself according to his own emotions and dreams and lifted himself by his bootstraps from a poor kid in the Midwest and created this image that is The Great Gatsby and it's a truly American story in that regard.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#2. It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#3. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me people nowdays don't have much compassion for others and think they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps which is pretty hard to do if you don't have any boots. The

Ruth Butler

#4. Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

Roy Wilkins

#5. The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

Norman Thomas

#6. You are not obligated to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and find a way to conquer the odds, to be stronger or transform yourself into some better version of yourself. The pain you are feeling (whatever the degree) may be a reminder that things are not as they should be.

Tullian Tchividjian

#7. You are here to light up the passion of your life and shine it as brightly as you possibly can for all to see. You are an example for all others on their path." - Bootstraps: A Woman's Guide to Personal Power

Sue Kipperman Pighini

#8. We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others ... It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#9. President Obama is casting his lot in the middle of a debate as old as America itself: Are we rugged individualists pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps? Or are we a nation of community, all connected and counting on one another?

Ron Fournier

#10. It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by its own bootstraps ... Every new discovery in mathematics, results from an attempt to solve some problem.

Howard Whitley Eves

#11. None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up
by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody -
a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns -
bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Thurgood Marshall

#12. Myth 7: Everyone Can Pull Himself or Herself Up by the Bootstraps.

George Lakoff

#13. How can I pull myself up by my bootstraps if I'm living on a shoestring?

Jayseth Guberman

#14. Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.

Peter Abrahams

#15. It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#16. Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.

Upton Sinclair

#17. A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the boot strap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel up climb.

Betty Smith

#18. I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.

Penn Jillette

#19. In such a therapeutic, pragmatic, pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps society as ours, the message of God having to do all the work in saving us comes as an offensive shot at our egos.

Michael Horton

#20. I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.

Michael Eric Dyson

#21. Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Vladimir Lenin

#22. It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God when they're not pulling themselves up by the bootstraps.

Ron Fournier

#23. Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.

Julia Cameron

#24. We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

Jerry Bridges

#25. I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza Richardson puts together, like Washed Out and Cults, but my favorite band is Bootstraps.

Shelley Hennig

#26. If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

George Monbiot

#27. They say, 'Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.' They don't realize that not everybody's bootstraps are the same length.

Andrew Mitchell

#28. Depression might have chosen you, but you don't have to choose it back. Sometimes happiness comes with bootstraps, but so what? Pull 'em up. Choose joy.

Marianne Williamson

#29. Judge Thomas was a man who had used the system to get where he wanted to be, but then felt that everyone else should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

Joycelyn Elders

#30. I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible - I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical.

Stephen Colbert

#31. But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

Idries Shah