Exalted Quotes

• Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Prayer

  Edward McKendree Bounds, Lyle W. Dorsett (1991). “E.M. Bounds: Man of Prayer”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humility, Wish, Existentialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

  Frank Stella

  Art, Successful, Want

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• Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

  Saint Patrick

  Wall, Lying, Compassion

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• I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Peace, One Day

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Wise, Ambition

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• I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Inspirational, Leadership, Money

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• I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

  Charles Schumer

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

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• An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John Gardner

  Philosophy, Humble, Water

  "Excellence, Can We be Equal and Excellent Too?" by John W. Gardner, (p. 86), 1961.

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• The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John W. Gardner

  Philosophy, Rain, Anger

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.97, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

  Samuel Butler

  Humble, Long, Use

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Rejoice, Creatures

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.101

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• Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.

  Emil Nolde

  Beautiful, Art, Believe

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• As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

  Abraham Clark

  War, Aggravation, Issues

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• Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

  Abraham Clark

  Gallows, Congress

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• Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

  Francis of Assisi

  Blessed, Men, People

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• It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pursuit, Mankind, Delusion

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Fact and Fiction”, p.38, Routledge

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• Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Elegance, Refined

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• To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

  Aristotle

  Education, Soul, Doe

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.266, Aristotle

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• An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact of life that they will discover soon enough if they try to pursue an independent path.

  Noam Chomsky

  Independent, Men, Soon Enough

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• To seek yourself in this world is to be lost; and to be humble is to be exalted.

  John Bunyan

  Humble, World, Lost

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.97

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• They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

  Aristotle

  Love, Hate, Mistake

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• n every exalted joy, there mingles a sense of gratitude.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Gratitude, Joy

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• The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.

  Gilbert Parker

  Song, Sweet, Pain

  Gilbert Parker (2008). “The Judgment House (Volume 1 of 2 ) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There can be no richer man or woman than the individual who has found his or her labor of love. Personal fulfillment through the virtue of work is the highest form of desire. Work is the conduit between the supply and the demand of all human needs, the forerunner of human progress, and the medium by which the imagination is given the wings of action. A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it.

  Dennis Kimbro

  Love Is, Men, Self

  Dennis Kimbro (2011). “What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement”, p.181, Main Street Books

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