Help me interpret these quotes...?

Question

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Winston Churchill

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Booker T. Washington

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington

Any help is appreciated. ;)

Answer 1

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Winston Churchill  - You will go higher or be more successive if you go follow your own path and not everyone else's

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill - You have taken a stand in something you believe in and in doing so you may have made some enemies who don't believe what you believe in.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Booker T. Washington - If you put someone down and try to keep him down it will in turn keep you down.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Booker T. Washington - Same as the other quote, if you lift or help other in turn you help yourself.