Quotes About Rags To Riches

#1. Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I like to call it Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.

Karen Abbott

#2. This story began with a single, starving family, hunted and alone on the plains of Mongolia - and ends with Kublai Khan ruling an empire larger than that of Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar. Over just three generations, that is simply the greatest rags-to-riches tale in human history.

Conn Iggulden

#3. Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me.

T. William Watts

#4. This is truly a rags to riches story which doesn't happen often, but it does happen. Hope is offered to those who face similar challenges that in this great Country dreams can be realized when work ethic and passion lead the way.

George M. Gilbert

#5. My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.

Diana Ross

#6. Adam had once told Gansey, Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. I got to sing solo in the junior choir when I was 10 or 11 and won a competition, and my sister's piano playing improved to a certain level. One time my sister and I worked together. The first song we ever sang in High School was Rags to Riches by Tony Bennett.

Gordon Lightfoot

#8. We tell rags-to-riches stories because we find something captivating in the idea of a lone hero battling overwhelming odds.

Malcolm Gladwell

#9. The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.

Robert Fulton

#10. Its humble beginnings are that of a parasite, growing in something that is alive, draining its host of beauty. It's clever - the plight of the splinter. A sort of rags to riches story.

Tarryn Fisher

#11. The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.

Marin Ireland

#12. James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn't Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does the straight culture's deification of its idols.

Jon Landau

#13. [Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Deborah Kerr

#14. In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens
the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

Richard Lederer

#15. My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers

#16. Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly.

Brian Tracy

#17. You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.

Brian Tracy

#18. The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

Charles A. Reich

#19. You were a well-respected agent, Michael, a rags-to-riches fairytale ending. Until you became disgraced. Now it appears your own organization wishes to be rid of you. Why is this?"
"My gun turned back into a pumpkin.

Nenia Campbell

#20. Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

Casey Stengel

#21. Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#22. The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Robert Reich

#23. I was the epitome of rags to riches.

Jason Mitchell

#24. I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles.

Kangana Ranaut

#25. The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

Waverley Root

#26. Mathematics ... is indispensable as an intellectual technique. In many subjects, to think at all is to think like a mathematician.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

#27. From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Criss Jami

#28. Who's poorer, the one who begs for money or those who have not enough to give away? Or are they reflecting one another and the same nature?

Robin Sacredfire

#29. People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.

Anthony Liccione

#30. Emperor, king, general, duke," he whispered to himself. "These are just labels. Climb up the family tree of any of them high enough and you'll find a commoner who dared to take a chance.

Ken Liu

#31. I'm seven layers of fucked up with a side of batshit crazy.

K.A. Tucker

#32. The way I see it, Disneyland will never be finished.

Walt Disney

#33. Everyone that steps on to the ladder of success must have hope. Without it, no one is able to reach the top.

Ellen J. Barrier

#34. I like the idea of songs sung by those without big voices. You know, small birdsongs that rise above the noise of the city.

Kyo Maclear

#35. Her voice hit him like a cool breeze - like that first cold front in Texas when the summer heat finally breaks and you start to believe things might get better.

Rick Riordan

#36. The people are sovereign and the Constitution is supreme. There is no one greater than the people.

Franco Debono

#37. No matter the terrible fighting and shooting in the desert, the riffle fires can never dry the oasis.

Auliq Ice

#38. Authenticity is key.

Tim Kaine