Bootstraps Quotes

We've understood throughout the project that we cannot portray them as coming from a lifting-yourselves-by-the-bootstraps background with no resources. We do not want to portray them as coming from humble backgrounds. - Bill Scott

We're going to have to pull up our bootstraps. - Wayne Morgan

We're disappointed and frustrated that we lost both matches over the weekend. But we're going to pick ourselves up from the bootstraps and get right back at it. Nothing very good came out of those two loses but we need to start making good things happen as we move forward. - Brad Dancer

Washington was born into slavery and living in the heart of the South, raising himself up by his bootstraps. - Michael Cobb

They view this not as a true disorder but as some kind of weakness of character, and if only they could just pull themselves up by their bootstraps they would be fine. - Charles Nemeroff

Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. - Julian Castro

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

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps. - Peter Abrahams

In the last year, Best Buy has pulled itself up by its bootstraps. - Ursula Moran

I think we've allowed ourselves in this society to become a little bit arrogant. People have all sorts of reasons that they live in poverty, and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps isn't always an option. It's too often that we sweep something away when we come upon something better. We need to remember that the person struggling to get by has value too. - Nick Checker