Sentence examples for pulling oneself up from inspiring English sources

These immigrants are often referred to today as an example of "pulling oneself up by the bootstraps". Nothing could be further from the truth.

What is a "cold boot"? A. "Booting," a common term for starting up the computer, is derived from the expression "pulling oneself up by the bootstraps".

His motto, "Only in America," has become an ingenious variation on Horatio Alger's philosophy of pulling oneself up from the boot straps, taking full advantage of the United States' free-enterprise system.

Pulling oneself up by the bootstraps has become American gospel.

Pulling oneself up by our bootstraps is not often an option.

My story is extraordinary, and is not a validation of the ethos of pulling oneself up by the bootstraps.

The phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" is part of the same idea – that in America, hard work yields rewards.

This mythology, embodied over those decades in the Horatio Alger stories consumed particularly by upwardly mobile young men and in the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", consistently held out that American promise by equating hard work (along with other good Puritan values such as delayed gratification, temperance, saving and self-reliance) with economic success.

But one response -- bad parenting and a refusal to pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps -- troubled him.

Where today is that Horatio Alger, pull oneself up by one's bootstraps zest and zeal that permeated the bounteous last few decades?

The solution to these appalling conditions of inner-city poverty is not moral exhortation to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps, but one that has always been an open secret in Washington -- a new Marshall Plan.