Elevating Quotes

• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.202, Penguin

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• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Motivational, Yoga, Positivity

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• I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Winning, Challenges

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• Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Meditation

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• Our success in influencing or elevating others is in proportion to their belief in our belief in them.

  Henry Drummond

  Belief, Influence, Proportion

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• Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye - a path to a better future.

  Jerome Groopman

  Eye, Feelings, Mind

  Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.6, Random House

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• Everybody got a taste of success and everybody wants to keep elevating that to the next level.

  Kevin Harvick

  Next Level, Levels, Want

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• I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.

  Tony La Russa

  Sports, Baseball, Character

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• We must elevate the craft, protect its interests, advance wages, reduce the hours of labor, spread correct economic doctrines and cultivate a spirit of fraternity among the working people regardless of creed, color, nationality or politics. These principles are the foundation principles of our organization.

  Peter J. McGuire

  Work, Color, Organization

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• It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  People, Forever, Secret

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1996). “Novels and Stories”

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• Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceeded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context then, all clothes become somewhat immoral, if we define immorality as inciting sexual interest. Habitual nakedness may indeed be capable of elevating man to a higher mental plane

  Lucy Irvine

  Men, Clothes, Erotic

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• Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Change, Ideas, Society

  Patricia Hill Collins (2002). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.7, Routledge

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• The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.

  Peter Joseph

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• Your body, the only one you will ever have, is the foundation of your life. And it’s either an anchor limiting your freedom and potential or a source of radiant energy, vitality and joy, elevating your life and the lives of those around you. It’s your choice… will yours be a source of strength, from which you will impact the world, or an obstacle, preventing you from your dreams and desires? … As my friend, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway is fond of saying,'If you’re going to bother setting a goal, aim high!'… My advice to you, aim high; aim for strength.

  Shawn Phillips

  Dream, Impact, Anchors

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• It is quite likely that the modern contrivances for making Sunday-schools amusing have given them a distate for the more solemn services of the sanctuary. If so, the amusement is a sin. The schools should feed the church. Children ought to be led by one into the other, exposed to the preaching of the gospel, taught the ways of God's house, and brought up under its influence, with all its hallowed and elevating influences.

  Samuel I. Prime

  Children, School, Sunday

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.572, 1895.

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• ... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them.

  Albert Einstein

  Work, People, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Individual, Project Management, Process

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• My wish for the American woman is that she may always be an elevating influence-man's inspiration. Let him go forth to duty while she weaves the spell which makes home a paradise to which he may return, ever welcome, whether he is victor or vanquished.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Inspiration, Home, Men

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• There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

  Heinrich Mann

  Ideas, Way, Novel

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• If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Humble, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.366, Penguin

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• If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

  George Will

  Jobs, Ordinary, Gone

  George F. Will (1995). “The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994”, Penguin Group USA

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• Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

  Samuel Smiles

  Self Esteem, Men, Self Respect

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.362

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• The prince exults whomever he selects as his consort, but the queen, rather than elevating the subject of her choice, humiliates him as a man. By all that is right, a man is not intended to be the husband of his wife, but a woman is to be her husband's wife.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Marriage, Queens, Husband

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• A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Thoughtful, Soul, Titles

  Edgar Allan Poe, Gary Richard Thompson (1984). “Essays and Reviews”, p.71, Library of America

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