(verb) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
"Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs."
"The harder you fall, the harder you rise."
"You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!"
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."