Rise from ashes quotes. You may have heard of the bird Phoenix. It was a bird that is considered a legend now, coz it had supposedly risen from its funeral's ashes. Moreover, it belongs to the Egyptian civilization and is considered as the symbol of rebirth and renewal. The great Phoenix spreads only one message and that is, We all can become a newer version of ourselves, if it can rise from his funeral ashes, why can't we make ourselves better and evolve with an entirely new version of ourselves! It should be noted that the Phoenix was only an eagle sized bird, that has risen from its dead ashes. So, why we, beings humans can't change ourselves to evolve into a better human being! To get inspiration and try something new in your life, you must go through the following quotes, following the legendary Phoenix!
1. "No matter how many times we burst into flames, we can always rise from the ashes." ― Anonymous
2. "Like a phoenix from the ashes, they may defeat you, burn you, insult you, injure you, and abandon you. But they will not, shall not, and cannot destroy you. For you, like Rome, were built on ashes, and you, like a phoenix, know how to resurrect." ― Nikita Gill
3. Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams. ― S. A. Sachs
4. "Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes." ― Jens Lekman
5. "And God help you if you are a phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash. A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past." ― Ani DiFranco
6. "It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes." ― Anne Baxter
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7. "The wild woman rises like a phoenix from the ashes of her life, to become the heroine of her own legend." ― Shikoba
8. "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall." ― Confuscious
9. "And when all that was left was ashes, she would again clothe herself in flame. Rising from the dust of her past to rekindle the spark of her future. She was a Phoenix, her own salvation; rebirthed, renewed, resurrected." ― LaRhonda Toreson
10. "Whether we remain the ash or become the Phoenix is up to us." ― Ming-Dao Deng
11. "Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost." ― Neil Gaiman
12. "Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person." ― Gerard Way
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13. "Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you." ― Anonymous
14. "What matters most is how well you walk through the fire." ― Charles Bukowski
15. "The phoenix must burn to emerge." ― Janet Fitch
16. "Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self." ― Karen Salmansohn
17. "Our passion ignites us. Rapture spawns the inferno in which we perish, entwined. From smoldering coals we are formed and, from our ashes, we rise. Discovered in the aftermath, our memory, our birth scars; third degree madness. Identical imperfections. Forever branded." ― Lennon Hodson
18. "In order to rise from its own ashes, a phoenix first must burn." ― Octavia Butler
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In order to rise from its own ashes |
19. "The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise." ― Miguel de Cervantes
20. "Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
21. "You may kill a fire. And everything you know falls to dust and ash. Yet the remarkable treasure in this seemingly hopeless pile, is hidden deep within. The burning embers incarnate the perpetual desire to go from spark to flame." ― Akilnathan Logeswaran
22. "From the ashes, a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring." ― J.R.R. Tolkien
23. "And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rises above its own ashes." ― Khalil Gibran
24. "Suffering can lead to transformation. And redemption. And marvelous mystery." ― Dr. Allen Hunt
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25. "Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive." ― Cassandre Clare
26. "Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge." ― Janet Fitch
27. "If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix." ― Hunter S. Thompson
28. "Once you’ve had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix." ― Sharon Stone
29. "The phoenix. The gentlest and most wonderful of its kind. Mesmerizing beauty and brillant colour. Its cry synonymous to a lovely song. But comes time, consumes itself in its own magnificent flame. And from its own ashes, will rise and reborn anew." ― Kahit Minsan
30. "And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?" ― Thomas Babington Macaulay
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31. "Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes." ― Jens Lekman
32. "It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes." ― Anne Baxter
33. "People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes." ― Pauline Phillips
34. "Distorting the history of World War II, denying the crimes of genocide and the Holocaust as well as an instrumental use of Auschwitz to attain any given goal is tantamount to desecration of the memory of the victims whose ashes are scattered here." ― Andrzej Duda
35. "I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future." ― Carl Sandburg
36. "Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."― Wilfred Burchett
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37. "Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten." ― Neil Gaiman
38. "Glory paid to our ashes comes too late." ― Marcus Valerius Martial
39. "Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes." ― Jawaharlal Nehru
40. "I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes." ― Bess Myerson
41. "No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner." ― Walter Savage Landor
42. "Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property." ― Richard Pryor
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43. "The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone."― Omar Khayyam
44. "Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation." ― Wole Soyinka
45. "I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet."― Jack London
46. "Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." ― Thomas Browne
47. "In 2015, I was privileged to host the first ever televised Women's Test match during the 2015 Women's Ashes on Sky Sports, which saw every game covered of the multi-format series." ― Isa Guha
48. "We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth." ― Kim Elizabeth
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49. 'Ashes of Time' was my third film, and as a young director at that point, it's not very often that you have the chance to make a big martial arts film, so of course I jumped at this opportunity." ― Wong Kar-wai
50. "I haven't really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space." ― Scott Bakula
51. "You can tell yourself that everything is normal, and try to keep the same routine from every other Test match, but there is always something extra special about an Ashes series." ― Glenn McGrath
52. "Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit." ― H. G. Wells
53. "From a purely selfish, batting point of view, I couldn't bat any better than the 2010-11 Ashes and then in India in 2012. That was as good as I could play." ― Alastair Cook
54. "NewSpace, commercial space - whatever you want to call it - is rising, with or without government support. It is rising in West Texas and on the Gulf Coast, in California and on the Virginia coast, and rising from the ashes of the old space program in Florida and in small shops and university labs in a hundred places in between." ― Rick Tumlinson
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55. "We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War." ― Moon Jae-in
56. "Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes." ― Hussein of Jordan
57. "I don't mind a bit of cricket, but it has to be something massive like the Ashes." ― Jamie Carragher
58. "My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland." ― Lorna Luft
59. "I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life passed through the Limerick courthouse. Misery, malevolence, the dark side of humanity... I tell ya, it made 'Angela's Ashes' look like 'The Wonderful World of Disney." ― Kevin Barry
60. "Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title." ― John Muir
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61. "To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground." ― Chief Seattle
62. "We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page." ― Barack Obama
63. "Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure - and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking." ― Isabel Gillies
64. "On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that." ― ASAP Rocky
65. "I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes." ― Bob Uecker
66. "A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona." ― Rabih Alameddine
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67. "For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own." ― Norman Davies
68. "I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes." ― Bob Uecker
69. "I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really." ― Philip Roth
70. "Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes." ― Zygmunt Bauman
71. "Scatter my ashes on the Shannon." ― Frank McCourt
72. "There is nothing quite like an Ashes trip Down Under." ― James Anderson
73. "If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South Korea, there would be no reason for Kim to build rockets to threaten a distant superpower that could reduce his hermit kingdom to ashes." ― Pat Buchanan
74. "Asceticism doesn't lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn't lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities." ― Guru Nanak
75. "The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States." ― Caitlin Doughty
76. "It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well." ― Napoleon Bonaparte
77. "My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day." ― Joan Rivers
78. "Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes." ― Yasser Arafat
79. "A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes." ― Dorothy Gilman
80. "Get picked for an Ashes Test at Lord's and you know you're going to meet the Queen. She arrived before the start of our game against Australia in 2013 and we lined up for inspection like the household cavalry on Horse Guards Parade." ― Jonny Bairstow
81. "I was a fortnight away from my 16th birthday when the fabled 2005 Ashes series ended. My hero-worship throughout it belonged to Ian Bell - though I don't think I've ever made that abundantly clear to him." ― Jonny Bairstow
82. "Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends." ― Virgil
83. "At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes." ― Wilbur Smith
84. "From the ashes of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets transformed its grandiosity and excesses into boldness and virtuosity. Plus, it wasn't afraid of a catchy hook or two." ― Carrie Brownstein
85. "The Ashes are the biggest Test series played in the world." ― Ben Stokes
86. "You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life." ― Mattie Stepanek
87. "Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory." ― Marcus Garvey
88. "As a young kid you stay up late to watch the Ashes, getting told off for not being in bed, and dream of making a hundred against Australia." ― Jonny Bairstow
89. "Everything goes out of the window when you start an Ashes series. It's about grabbing the moment." ― Jonny Bairstow
90. "I do love the Ashes and some of my best memories are from Ashes cricket. I just wish we'd played a few more Test matches." ― Isa Guha
91. "I always thought I had a difficult childhood 'til I saw the film 'Angela's Ashes'." ― Roland Orzabal
92. "At a personal level, doing well in the Ashes and winning it was a high." ― Isa Guha
93. "I think the great thing about 'Ashes To Ashes' is that it is very much its own show." ― Daniel Mays
94. "You can't feel your way into an Ashes series, you have to be switched on from ball one. That's just me in a nutshell." ― Ben Stokes
95. "A lot of the things we do in Test cricket revolves around planning for the Ashes series down under." ― Joe Root
96. "You turn up to an Ashes series and put everything you can into it." ― Joe Root
97. "And in an Ashes series the best approach as player is to not get caught up in feeling pressure for your position but to think only about the greater cause. How can I contribute? It could be a single moment, like a blinding catch or a run out. Think only of the team's needs." ― Moeen Ali
98. "Every time you're involved in an Ashes series, as soon as it finishes at the back of your mind you start thinking about the next one." ― Joe Root
99. "It's tough to take, losing the Ashes. It's bitterly disappointing." ― Joe Root
100. "An Ashes series is huge for Australian cricketers - and English cricketers for that matter - and there's always that added pressure." ― Steve Smith
101. "It's great to retain the Ashes but it just doesn't sit right with me when you don't win it." ― Steve Smith
102. "One-day cricket is about the World Cup and Test cricket is about the Ashes." ― Michael Clarke
103. "A lot of the things we do in Test cricket revolves around planning for the Ashes series down under." ― Joe Root
104. "I think the great thing about 'Ashes To Ashes' is that it is very much its own show." ― Daniel Mays