Lifts Quotes - Page 17

• Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration who achieves greatness, both in his work and in his career.

  Stanwood Cobb

  Inspiration, Creativity, Greatness

  Stanwood Cobb (1967). “The importance of creativity”

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• A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

  Booker T. Washington

  Integrity, Race, Individual

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1976). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1899-1900”, p.358, University of Illinois Press

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• There are days when we can bring before God...laughter of joy and gratitude. There will be other days when we can only muster a bitter, angry complaint. Be confident that God will accept whatever we lift up before him, and he will make it serve his purpose and our good.

  Gardner C. Taylor

  God, Faith, Christian

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• The score of Pelleas and Melisande by Debussy, heralds that which will lift man from the earthly to the celestial, from the mortal to the immortal. Once again the ways of the artist and healer are merging.

  Corinne Heline

  Inspiration, Men, Artist

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• My vision that I’m living is to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and then lift the Lombardi Trophy several times.

  Chuck Pagano

  Daughter, Mother, Wedding

  "Watch the Postgame Speech By the NFL Coach Battling Leukemia That" by Jonathon M. Seidl, www.theblaze.com. November 4, 2012.

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• Oh no, oh no... don't lift me, don't lift me.

  Robert Kennedy

  Last Words

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• Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

  Will Durant

  Life, Freedom, Philosophy

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.

  Laura Prepon

  Sexy, Believe, Looks

  "TV Q&A: "That '70s Show"'s Laura Prepon". Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. February 13, 2007.

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• Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Drug, Overcoming, Pills

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• I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that we may go forth in peace, and live in peace all our days, and that He will look down upon our children and finally lift us far above this earth.

  Red Cloud

  Children, Father, Native American

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• If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the Mississippi... in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Tribes, American Indian

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.177

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• Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Nature, Men, Land

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• Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

  Booker T. Washington

  People, Stronger, Ethics

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• Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fearless, Inspire, Truthful

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• Only the person who risks is truly free

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspire, Risk, Persons

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• Have faith in yourself and in the future.

  Edward Kennedy

  Inspire, Have Faith, Faith In Yourself

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• Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Self, Inspire, Trying

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• My whole head is like I've had a face lift.

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Faces, Whole

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• I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'

  Robin Williams

  Memorable, Airports, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Memorable

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.347

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• Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones: Was, did, had, made, went, looked... One-size-fits-all looks like crap on anyone. Sew yourself a custom made suit. Pick a better verb. Challenge all those verbs to really lift some weight for you.

  Janet Fitch

  Running, Writing, People

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• It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itself by its own bootstraps... Every new discovery in mathematics, results from an attempt to solve some problem.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Teaching, Mean, Math

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• This is a wonderful time to be living here on earth. Our opportunities are limitless. While there are some things wrong in the world today, there are many things right, such as teachers who teach, ministers who minister, marriages that make it, parents who sacrifice, and friends who help. "We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude. If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues."

  Thomas S. Monson

  Teacher, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Thomas S Monson from Nov 26, 2014

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• Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.

  Barack Obama

  Sacrifice, Opportunity, Community

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• Hey fellas! This is what you work all off season for. This is why you lift all them weights! This is why you do all that!

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Football, Nfl

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