Top 100 Quotes About Elevate
#1. He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would say, "Be careful how you turn to the dead. Don't think of the rotting. Hold your gaze and you will see the living light of your dearly loved departed up above in heaven.
Victor Hugo
#2. We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evolution, a government of humans should elevate itself to a higher order.
Mario Cuomo
#3. The apologists for the medium claim that all sorts of interesting information is provided by television. This is true, but as it is much easier to produce programs that titillate rather than elevate the viewer, what most people watch is unlikely to help in developing the self.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#4. If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.
Lao-Tzu
#5. It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.
Peter J. Carroll
#6. The mind is a temple;
negative thoughts defile it.
The heart is a temple;
positive desires elevate it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#7. Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller
#8. Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.
Alexander Walker
#9. When in doubt, initiate. Say yes - to love, to life, to joining in with others. That is how we stay on the right path and, at the same time, elevate humanity.
Philip Toshio Sudo
#10. I realize that I will either allow my view of evil to determine my view of God and will cut him down accordingly, or I will allow my view of God to determine my view of the evil and will elevate him accordingly, accepting that nothing is beyond his power for good.
Dallas Willard
#11. I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#12. Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.
Stephen Covey
#13. The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.
James F. Cooper
#14. Why do we cling to bigotry? Because bigotry, plainly, is convenient. It is a near-effortless way to both elevate one's stature and make a pity grab in this culture of victims that we have become.
John Ridley
#15. Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.
Albert Pujols
#16. There is no evidence when we look to the past for any precedent for the rate of change in atmospheric composition that we're causing, and the rates of change in climate that we can expect, as we continue to burn fossil fuels and elevate these greenhouse gas concentrations.
Thom Hartmann
#17. Elevate yourself away from anything or anyone who stunts your growth by distraction, you will never get round to watering your own plant if you wait for there approval to do so. Before you know it there garden will be full and yours would never have been started.
Keysha Jade
#18. Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.
Steve Martin
#19. We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.
Will Rogers
#20. We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack.
John Ashcroft
#21. Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.
Wesley Snipes
#22. When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world.
Hillary Clinton
#23. Enlightened people and serene landscapes can help to elevate our inner bliss but the awareness must first be realized from within.
Christopher Dines
#24. It is easy to specify the individual objects of admiration in these grand scenes; but it is not possible to give an adequate idea of the higher feelings of wonder, astonishment, and devotion, which fill and elevate the mind.
Charles Darwin
#25. When you're being celebrated and flying high, don't allow fanatics (fans) to elevate you so far out that you forget whose sky it is.
T.F. Hodge
#26. When you feel sad, you are participating in a venerable experience, to which I, this monument, am dedicated. Your sense of loss and disappointment, of frustrated hopes and grief at your own inadequacy, elevate you to serious company. Do not ignore of throw away your grief
Alain De Botton
#27. Calling a man a god did not elevate the man, it only diminished the idea of godhood.
Orson Scott Card
#28. Our goal at Home Theater Films is to inspire and entertain our audience. We want to make great movies that everyone can enjoy and elevate them with contemporary, relatable characters that naturally demonstrate their faith in real world situations.
Corbin Bernsen
#29. Our success in ministry is not to elevate us but to glorify Him who has called and equipped us
Sunday Adelaja
#30. If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
Abraham Lincoln
#31. I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
Talib Kweli
#32. Most adults don't sing anymore. We have to break that, and start singing the name of the Almighty One, try to cultivate the emotions. We have to elevate our emotions to the maximum, to the limit, and that then turns into spiritual bliss.
Dharma Mittra
#33. The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.
Francois Guizot
#34. Coming out of Dallas and doing commercial work in Dallas - if you had improv background in Dallas, then you were instantly shot to the top of the list of commercial bookings because they loved improvisers because you could elevate the material.
Allison Tolman
#35. We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrading and belittling those around us. Yet this produces only a false sense of self-esteem.
Billy Graham
#36. The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama.
Sathya Sai Baba
#37. I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can elevate myself to the standards I have imposed on others.
Mike Corbett
#38. to elevate the race of humankind. To endow each individual with sovereignty over his own heart and to lift the state as a whole to govern itself.
Steven Pressfield
#39. But Mr. Elton had only drunk wine enough to elevate his spirits, not at all to confuse his intellects.
Jane Austen
#40. Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential ... by reacting without reflecting.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#41. That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.
Giorgio Armani
#42. We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
Timothy Keller
#43. Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
Denis Diderot
#44. Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.
Horace Greeley
#45. There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
Henry David Thoreau
#46. It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.
Courtney Love
#47. In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.
John Milton
#48. Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.
Emeril Lagasse
#49. Let's Elevate, Educate, and Empower Our Youth ... Not Incarcerate Them! Try To HELP Our Youth ... Don't HURT Them! Lord knows they'll have plenty of enough hurdles to leap over in their lives!
Timothy Pina
#50. There are only perches within society, and we can elevate our sights by considering how things might look from those of others.
Yuval Levin
#51. Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?
Robert G. Ingersoll
#52. Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.
Victor J. Banis
#53. Don't kill the game with your 'funk', elevate it with your humility.
T.F. Hodge
#54. For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.
Gabriel Faure
#55. Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.
Dean Koontz
#56. The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
Marina Abramovic
#57. Dr. Bonar once said that he could tell when a Christian was growing. In proportion to his growth in grace he would elevate his Master, talk less of what he himself was doing, and become smaller and smaller in his own esteem, until, like the morning star, he faded away before the rising sun.
Dwight L. Moody
#58. The purpose of art is to elevate the spirit or to pay a surgeon's bill. Or both. It can help a person remember or forget.
Barbara Kingsolver
#59. The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while it is sundered so wholly from the moral life of its devotee.
Henry David Thoreau
#60. Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.
Mick Jagger
#63. Christianity, as a product of the resentment of the botched and the weak, has put in ban all that is beautiful, strong, proud, and powerful, in fact all the qualities resulting from strength, and that, in consequence, all forces which tend to promote or elevate life have been seriously undermined.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#64. One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models
Epictetus
#65. If you consciously get your body into different postures, you can elevate your consciousness.
Sadhguru
#66. TRUST ADJUST
An act that changes perception can elevate or lower integrity
Kamil Ali
#67. Not only does a regular intense exercise programme elevate spirits, it enables the Type O to maintain weight control, emotional balance and a strong self-image.
Peter J. D'Adamo
#68. If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders.
Geraldine Laybourne
#69. My vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one mind, one heart, one life, one spirit at a time. They are married.
Iyanla Vanzant
#70. There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking.
Bryan Adams
#71. The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.
Barry Lopez
#72. Therefore, wheat products elevate blood sugar levels more than virtually any other carbohydrate, from beans to candy bars.
William Davis
#73. You don't need to be a poet, a performer, a writer, or a journalist to tell your story powerfully. You do, however, need to elevate your language in ways that will bring your story to life clearly and imaginatively for others.
John Capecci And Timothy Cage
#74. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman has been my mission.
Ruth Bernhard
#75. The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.
Timothy Keller
#76. Change is just the vehicle to elevate you toward the ultimate destinations.
Pearl Zhu
#77. One day the Singularity would elevate humans to cybernetic superbeings, and maybe then people would say what they meant.
Probably not, though.
Charlie Jane Anders
#78. If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake.
Vladimir Putin
#79. Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.
Saul Williams
#80. We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity.
John Mackey
#81. I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.
Mary J. Blige
#82. Be the inner journeys, be the outer travels, all trips elevate man, all voyages lift him up!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#83. A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
Ellen G. White
#84. Happy Tuesday! Stay in the LIGHT. Hold onto positive things that elevate your spirit & be with positive people who make your life dance !
Tracey Edmonds
#85. By consciously getting your body into a certain posture, you can also elevate your consciousness, you can change the very way you feel, think, understand, and experience life simply by sitting in a particular way.
Sadhguru
#86. To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them.
James MacGregor Burns
#87. We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.
Ben Carson
#88. The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.
Patch Adams
#89. The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
Dorothea Dix
#90. There exists no objective basis on which to elevate one species above another.
Richard Dawkins
#91. Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time.
Michael Douglas
#92. This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year, coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone, trying things you have never done before, & make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are & soar high. Make it happen!
Pablo
#93. One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.
Bode Miller
#94. Read books that expand you, that are bright. See films, plays, art forms that elevate your consciousness, that bring you into a sense of how beautiful this world is, how beautiful other worlds are, how beautiful nirvana, the transcendental is.
Frederick Lenz
#95. Music has a very powerful and wonderful influence in establishing feelings and moods that can lift and elevate your thoughts and your actions.
Ardeth Kapp
#96. We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.
George W. Romney
#97. Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#98. In calling someone a bad guy, I reassure myself that I'm good. I elevate myself. I call it the 'Star Wars morality'. And unfortunately, it underpins most of the stories we tell.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#99. I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk.
Larry David
#100. Worship always suffers when man is exalted and God is belittled. If you remove the fact that you're a sinner, if you elevate yourself to a more righteously entitled place, if you exalt yourself and think, "I'm not really all that bad; I'm kind of a good person," then your worship is going to suffer.
Matt Chandler
