Elevation Quotes

• Separation before elevation. You have to let some people and things go so you can go to the next level.

  Tony Gaskins

  People, Levels, Next

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2015

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• Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

  Bruce Lee

  Humility, Honor, Foundation

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.95, Tuttle Publishing

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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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• Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

  Martin Delany

  Work, Self, Hands

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• Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.

  Roderick L. Evans

  Sometimes, Setback

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• The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.

  Stanislas de Boufflers

  Solitude, Cold, Higher

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• There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Air, Doe, Kind

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• Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

  Oswald Chambers

  Fall, Pride, Men

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• What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Beautiful, Mean, Humility

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• If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

  Matthew Simpson

  Faith, Character, Agency

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

  Barack Obama

  Ambition, Character, Achievement

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• Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Race, Order, Class

  Frances Power Cobbe (2010). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Giving, Vision, Doe

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2002). “Muslim Political Thought: A Reconstruction”

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• Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Practice

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.164, Penguin Books India

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• The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

  Charles Sumner

  Men, Humanity, Civil War

  Charles Sumner (1850). “Orations and Speeches [1845-1850]”, p.122

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• All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Firsts, Moral, Momentary

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• I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

  Eugene Green

  Spiritual, Thinking, Relation

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• What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Real, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.73, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

  Lucy Stone

  Sex, Mean, Humanity

  Letter to her mother, March 14, 1847.

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• There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

  Ernestine Rose

  Women, Prejudice, Reason

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

  Edith Stein

  Prayer, Heart, Soul

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• My loving friend, you see, my life was never given a foundation, no one was able to imagine what it would want to become. In Venice there stands the so-called Ca del Duca, a princely foundation, on which later the most wretched tenement came to be built. With me it's the opposite: the beautiful arched elevations of my spirit rest on the most tentative beginning; a wooden scaffolding, a few boards....Is that why I feel inhibited in raising the nave, the tower to which the weight of the great bells is to be hoisted (by angels, who else could do it)?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Angel, Opposites

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• The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.

  Catharine Beecher

  Selfish, Independent, Opportunity

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1851). “The true remedy for the wrongs of woman: with a history of an enterprise having that for its object”, p.59

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• Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Loss, Self Improvement, Drink

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.126, Applewood Books

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• Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Prayer, Names, Ninety Nine

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