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

  Roderick L. Evans

  Sometimes, Setback

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general emulation takes place, which causes good humor, sociability, good manners, and good morals to be general. That elevation of sentiment inspired by such a government, makes the common people brave and enterprising. That ambition which is inspired by it makes them sober, industrious, and frugal.

  John Adams

  Ambition, Government, People

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 4: Novanglus, Thoughts on Government, Defence of the Constitution I”, p.158, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Positive, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

  T. S. Eliot

  Book, Writing, Silence

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “The Rock: A Pageant Play”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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