Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps Quotes

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

Andrew Mitchell

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Jayseth Guberman

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

George Lakoff

#12. 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

#13. 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