100+ Elevating Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: 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

topic: Work, People, Giving, Elevating

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

- Kevin Harvick

topic: Next Level, Levels, Want, Elevating, Taste Of Success

I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

- Jane Austen

source: Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.475, Wildside Press LLC

topic: Girl, Hate, Passion, Elevating, Hate Her

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

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

topic: People, Forever, Secret, Elevating

Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it.

- Mary Baker Eddy

topic: Purifying, Elevating

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

- Keith Richards

topic: Teamwork, Rock And Roll, Rocks, Elevating

Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet, when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.34, DOSER Reads

topic: Disappointment, Grief, Sight, Starry Sky, Elevating

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

topic: Character, Clubs, Talent, Elevating, Toughness

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

topic: Color, Organization, People, Elevating, Cultivating

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

topic: Dream, Impact, Anchors, Elevating, Source Of Strength

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

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

topic: Ideas, Requirements, Groups, Elevation, Elevating

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

topic: Challenges, Understanding, Suffering, We All Make Mistakes, Proven Wrong

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

topic: Men, Clothes, Dresses, Habitual, Elevating

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

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

topic: Children, School, Sunday, Sunday School, Elevating

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

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

topic: Thoughtful, Soul, Titles, Elevating

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

- Heinrich Mann

topic: Ideas, Way, Novel, Elevating, Better Ways

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

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

topic: Self Esteem, Men, Self Respect, Elevating

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

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

topic: Work, Humble, Mean, Elevating

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

topic: Inspiration, Home, Men, Elevating, Let Him Go

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

- George Will

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

topic: Jobs, Ordinary, Gone, Elevating

The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace is the healing and elevating influence of the world, and strife is not. There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right.

- Woodrow Wilson

source: Speech in Philadelphia, 10 May 1915, in 'Selected Addresses' (1918) p. 88

topic: Peace, Healing, Fighting, Elevating, Fighting On

Look at who people are elevating and deifying in the public eye, and ask yourself what those people have done to receive such lauding and what it is they haven't. When you look at that you say, okay, are these people being revered for something of merit, or are they completely hallow? Or even worse, are they being revered for something that is actually destructive?

- Davey Havok

source: "The Skinnie" Magazine, March 2010.

topic: Eye, People, Looks, Elevating

Fill your life with service to others. As you lose your life in the service of Father in Heaven’s children, Satan’s temptations lose power in your life. Because your Father in Heaven loves you profoundly, the Atonement of Jesus Christ makes that strength possible. Isn’t it wonderful? Many of you have felt the burden of poor choices, and each of you can feel the elevating power of the Lord’s forgiveness, mercy, and strength.

- Richard G. Scott

topic: Jesus, Children, Father, Elevating, Poor Choices

The Americans... are almost ignorant of the art of music, one of the most elevating, innocent and refining of human tastes, whose influence on the habits and morals of a people is of the most beneficial tendency.

- James F. Cooper

source: "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

topic: Art, People, Ignorant, Elevating

Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own littleness by elevating itself into an antagonist of what is above it. He that has no pleasure in looking up is not fit so much as to look down. Of such minds are mannerists in Art; in the world, tyrants of all sorts.

- Washington Allston

topic: Art, Tyrants, Mind, Elevating, Antagonist

My faith in humanity leads me to believe that people are looking for something more elevating than the sordid details of the intimate aspects of one's personal life.

- Ginger Rogers

source: Ginger Rogers (1991). “Gineger My Story”

topic: Believe, People, Humanity, Faith In Humanity, Elevating

Theurgy is ritual magic - but magic that enacts the will of God, not of the magician. Â It brings divine energies down to earth, elevating and spiritualizing the world of matter, including the very being and substance of the participants. Â Each time the believer takes part with attention and devotion,Â he or she becomes more attuned to God.

- Richard Smoley

source: Richard Smoley, Jay Kinney (2012). “Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions”, p.53, Quest Books

topic: Magic, Attention, Substance, Elevating

Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic styles...In a stunning move, an entire replacement culture was developed by naming a 'problem' where it had scarcely existed before, centering it on the women's natural state, and elevating it to the existential female dilemma...The number of diet-related articles rose 70 percent from 1968 to 1972...The lucrative 'transfer of guilt' was resurrected just in time.

- Naomi Wolf

topic: Moving, Clothes, Numbers, Stunning, Elevating

These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.

- Alain de Botton

source: "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

topic: Heart, Ideas, Effort, Elevating, Venture Capital

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Names, Bears, Elevating

In the event you bungle elevating your sons or daughters, I do not imagine regardless of what else you are doing nicely issues very considerably.

- Jackie Kennedy

topic: Daughter, Son, Issues, Elevating

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.118, Harvard University Press

topic: Nature, Morning, Wrinkles, Morning Dew, Elevating

Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.

- Joshua L. Goldberg

topic: Goal, Movement, Rapids, Elevating, Collages

While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our readers will also do, between it and dogmatism. Dogmatism has been the bane of civilization and a curse to mankind. It has degraded our sex, stifled intelligent inquiry, and persecuted every independent reformer and every noble cause.

- Tennessee Celeste Claflin

topic: Sex, Powerful, Believe, Intellectual Freedom, Elevating

In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

topic: Emptiness, Empty, Elevating, Non Existence

Look at native cultures - they've lasted for tens of thousands of years, not doing everything right. We wouldn't want to emulate them in many ways, but their basic philosophies - being a part of nature, a part of a tribe or group without elevating, not what you call dominator philosophies - they lasted for tens of thousands of years. It took us to come and put them asunder.

- Tom Shadyac

topic: Philosophy, Years, Culture, Emulate, Elevating

Every person working in sports journalism today owes a tremendous debt to Howard Cosell. His greatest contribution was elevating sports reporting out of daily play-by-play and placing it in the larger context of society.

- Roone Arledge

topic: Sports, Play, Debt, Elevating

Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

- Luther Burbank

topic: Prayer, Hands, Feet, Elevating

War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state... What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men!

- Heinrich von Treitschke

topic: War, Men, Wish, Elevating

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.

- Ann Bridge

source: Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.178, A&C Black

topic: Advertising, Virtue, Modern, Standards And Values, Elevating

By elevating the dictum of the market to the role of the sole criterion of rationality and efficiency, economics denies even all "respectability" to the distinction between essential and non-essential consumption, between productive and unproductive labor, between actual and potential surplus.

- Paul A. Baran

source: Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.25, NYU Press

topic: Essentials, Roles, Economics, Surplus, Elevating

There is seemingly no biological benefit to acting with conscience; if there were, only moral individuals would survive and procreate. Sadly, we know that's not true. The benefit of conscience is that you won't suffer guilt (private) or shame (public), and that by your own self-imposed definition, you are a moral human, a special kind of animal who takes unique pride in elevating him/herself above the termites.

- Laura Schlessinger

topic: Pride, Animal, Unique, Elevating

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