Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plutarch

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Jim Leach

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

George MacDonald

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

Joel Osteen

Send your life to a whole new level! Zip up the negative words and start speaking faith and victory into your future.

Joel Osteen

Listen carefully to the words and tone of voice you use with your spouse. Are you complaining all the time and telling her what she's not doing right? Or are you doing like Solomon-blessing, encouraging, and uplifting that woman?

Louise Hay

I monitor my self-talk, making sure that it is uplifting and supportive of myself and others.

Louise Hay

I do not allow others to influence my thinking unless it is positive or uplifting.

Leo Buscaglia

Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.

Mother Teresa

Doctors can heal the body, but it is music that uplifts the spirit.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.

Peace Pilgrim

Concealed in every new situation we face is a spiritual lesson to be learned and a spiritual blessing for us if we learn that lesson. It is good to be tested. We grow and learn through passing tests. I look upon all my tests as good experiences. Before I was tested, I believed I would act in a loving or non-fearing way. After I was tested, I knew! Every test turned out to be an uplifting experience. And it is not important that the outcome be according to our wishes.

Pema Chodron

You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.

Hamish Bowles

The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. Whats thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.

Josh Radnor

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.

Kaskade

Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.

Karrine Steffans

My happiness came from learning my purpose, which is to be honest and to share things that normal people probably wouldn't share, in an effort to support and uplift other women. I love that my journey gives other women hope, letting them see how far God can bring a soul.

Karl Jaspers

The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and though the opinion is not effectively present in the units. Such an opinion is spoken of as 'public opinion,' a fiction which is appealed to by individuals and by groups as supporting their special views. It is impalpable, illusory, transient; ''tis here, 'tis there, 'tis gone'; a nullity which can nevertheless for a moment endow the multitude with power to uplift or destroy.

Karl Kraus

It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper.

Judy Gold

My doctor said I had OCD. I couldn't believe it. I had to call him nine times to make sure.

Patrick Stump

I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

Patrick Stump

I don't see the songs as uplifting, but rather as trying to make lemonade from lemons, or whatever. When I listen to them, I understand the context. I don't like to pepper songs with my own experiences, though.

Mary J. Blige

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.

Pam Brown

Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.

Nhat Hanh

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

Nhat Hanh

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

Noam Chomsky

The US intervened in the Philippines to uplift and christianize the backward people, killing a couple of hundred thousand of them and destroying the place. The same thing happened in Haiti, the same thing happened with other countries.

Muhammad Ali

What you are thinking is what you are becoming.

Muhammad Ali

What keeps me going is goals.

Lucy Fry

Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

Martin Luther King, Jr.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Mark Hopkins

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.