Quotes About Boot Straps

#1. I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

Shirley Manson

#2. The single largest variable that predicts SAT scores is family income. If you want higher SAT scores, you need to get your kids born into wealthier families. You know, it's great to tell kids to pull themselves up by their own boot straps, but you better put boots on them first.

Paul Houston

#3. Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.

Michael Pollan

#4. Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

Josh Billings

#5. As you read, a shift takes place within you.

Eckhart Tolle

#6. You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Paulo Coelho

#7. I recognized Tiger Lily instantly; I had seen her before. She stood out like a combination of a roving panther and a girl. She stalked instead of walked. Her body still held the invincibility of a child, when at her age it should have been giving way to fragile, flexible curves.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#8. We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

Michel De Montaigne