Top 100 Quotes About Elevates
#1. It is not the principled partisan, however obnoxious he may seem to his opponents, who degrades our public debate, but the preening, self-styled statesman who elevates compromise to a first principle.
Tom DeLay
#2. Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#3. Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal?
Gustave Flaubert
#4. Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.
Samuel Johnson
#5. Somebody like me - I am a member of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change, we've been at this for several years now. To have somebody like the Prince of Wales talk about something [like climate changes] elevates that conversation to a much higher level.
Chris Barrie
#6. There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.
Horace Mann
#7. Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve
and makes you laugh along the way.
Lena Dunham
#8. Lust, pure gorgeous lust: the sacred energy that elevates us, and makes us feel so special.
Fiona Thrust
#9. The mind travels more freely on this limitless expanse, the contemplation of which elevates the soul, gives ideas of the infinite, the idea?
Gustave Flaubert
#10. Love makes you wise. Love unites. Pain divides. Hate divides even more. Hate separates and brings us down to a very physical plane. Love elevates us to a plane of spirit.
Frederick Lenz
#11. The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.
Mark Twain
#12. Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
Victor Hugo
#13. Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.
William Monahan
#14. It naturally elevates the soul to feel this intimate relationship to it's primal ground ... A man then feels himself truly at home, and whenever he is lifted up through music he can say to himself: "Yes, you come from other worlds, and in music you can experience your native place."
Rudolf Steiner
#15. Nothing refines like affection. Family jarring vulgarizes - family union elevates.
Charlotte Bronte
#17. Being the provider of the first big "O" gives me some power. It elevates my status. I'm the White Knight in the land of Orgasmia, wielding my magical sword of awesome.
Helena Hunting
#18. Christians have a way of crouching in their own culture instead of penetrating the one they live in with the gospel. Too many migrate to a faith that elevates issue debate and substitutes a set of personal preferences for the glorious gospel.
James MacDonald
#19. Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.
Joseph Pilates
#20. God tells me to cover myself, to hide my beauty and to tell the world that I'm not here to please men with my body; I'm here to please God. God elevates the dignity of a woman's body by commanding that it be respected and covered, shown only to the deserving - only to the man I marry.
Yasmin Mogahed
#21. Every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
Margaret Oliphant
#22. Gossip is an unavoidable evil at school, work, or wherever, but when the HR department gossips, it elevates into malice.
John-Talmage Mathis
#23. When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: I like this resonance. It elevates me. It develops hitherto unknown possibilities in me. I don't recognize myself. This is very interesting.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
#24. Living with this gratitude elevates you ... You become a more joyful person. You become a kinder and more compassionate person. You become a calmer and more peaceful person. You become a person who lives in greater harmony with others.
Zelig Pliskin
#25. If there are two clones, one good and one evil, I can't kill on sight alone. It's the same with love. Some love hurts, and some love elevates, but as to which one is which, they are two sides to the same sandwich.
Jarod Kintz
#26. This research supports the hypothesis that elevations of insulin and IGF will increase the risk of disease and shorten life, and so any diet or lifestyle that elevates insulin and makes IGF more available to the cells and tissues is likely to be detrimental.
Gary Taubes
#27. Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.
John Ruskin
#28. Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#29. Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.
Sri Chinmoy
#30. Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love
Bhagat Singh
#31. The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions.
Adrian Rogers
#32. Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#33. In a culture that elevates beauty and style, the Christian community is at genuine risk fordistraction, even deception. What do we truly admire in our leaders? Are we nodifferent from secular population, drawn tocharisma and style above substance and i tegrity?
I hope not.
Jen Hatmaker
#34. If you become indignant, this elevates you to the plane of intellectual.
Tom Wolfe
#35. ...there's no mistake if you can resolve it, whether it's in your music or in your life. Sometimes the mistake motivates you or elevates you to a different circumstance that can be better. If I make a mistake, I'm going to develop that mistake, so it doesn't sound like a mistake. -Dave Brubeck
Andrew Zuckerman
#36. Cate Blanchett is mesmerizing. I don't know why. It's beyond my understanding. Why we all want to work with her is she elevates the rest of us. She's just got some ethereal grace and elegance that's beyond me, and an acute understanding of human nature. She's just exquisite. She's otherworldly.
Brad Pitt
#38. Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
Edward O. Wilson
#39. Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued.
Felix O. Hartmann
#40. Some claims deserve ridicule, and anything less falsely elevates them.
Steven Novella
#41. Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities. These things have nothing to do with a person's relationship with the Supreme.
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
#42. Love beautifies the giver and elevates the receiver.
Sivananda
#43. 6Just-ones by faith instead say thus, Say in your hearts: Who-is the Messiah that elevates to heaven and seizes-it? 7Who-is the Messiah descending to the abyss of Sheol to elevate from among the dead? 8But what-is said? The reply is near to you to your mouth and to your heart.[268]
A. Frances Werner
#44. Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.
Michael Marshall Smith
#45. Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates.
Mahatma Gandhi
#46. He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
Edmund Burke
#47. Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#48. Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. God gave laws to His people to bless them, not to burden them. Every rule either elevates the quality of human life or restores one's relationship with God after a breach. He makes no extraneous demands and He is never capricious.
Charles R. Swindoll
#50. Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.
Randy Castillo
#51. A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#52. There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
Washington Irving
#53. God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Alfred Adler
#54. There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.
Richard Hofstadter
#55. Prayer also forms a type of nutrition for self confidence and keeps you free from worry. It connects you with the main Source of positive energy (Almighty) and recharges you throughout the day. It elevates your plain of thoughts and indirectly guides you to think fruitful and useful thoughts.
Sanchita Pandey
#56. The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
Phil Jackson
#57. If you want to be great, you can't be great by yourself. You gotta to bring people around you. As the the challenge escalates, the need for teamwork elevates. The greater the challenge, the better the team.
John C. Maxwell
#58. The enduring goodness of the Lord elevates me, the power of the Lord enthrones me, and the spirit of the holy one of Zion covers me.
'Goke Coker
#59. I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.
Stone Gossard
#60. Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.
Nicola Griffith
#61. Love sometimes elevates, creates new qualities, suspends the working of evil inclinations; but only for a day. Love, then, is an Oriental despot, whose glance lifts a slave from the dust, and then consigns him to it again.
Sophie Swetchine
#62. Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.
Gay Talese
#63. That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.
Hosea Ballou
#64. Life does not favor the fearful nor does it reward the reluctant; it embraces and elevates those willing to climb in spite of their fear and willing to try in the mocking face of failure. It gives bonus points to those who fall flat, get up and climb again.
Toni Sorenson
#65. One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words.
Neil Genzlinger
#66. Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#67. He loved the soothing hour, when the last tints of light die away; when the stars, one by one, tremble through aether, and are reflected on the dark mirror of the waters; that hour, which, of all others, inspires the mind with pensive tenderness, and often elevates it to sublime contemplation.
Ann Radcliffe
#69. The large executive chair elevates the sitter. and it is covered with the skin of some animal, preferably your predecessor.
Emilio Ambasz
#71. The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.
Daniel Seligman
#73. A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
Alexander Pushkin
#75. History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.
Edmund Morris
#76. I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.
William P. Young
#77. Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.
William Jennings Bryan
#78. The Bhagavad-Gita changes this. It takes the Warrior Ethos and elevates it to a loftier and nobler plane - the plane of the individual's inner life, to his struggle to align himself with his own higher nature.
Steven Pressfield
#79. Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment.
Pearl Zhu
#80. Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
Frank Herbert
#81. Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation ...
George Eliot
#82. Ralph Waldo Emerson could write (in The Conduct of Life, 1860): 'The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.' Mountains
Richard Fortey
#83. I'm a great believer in the character of a 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
#84. A gin and tonic under its tiny canopy of lime, I said, elevates character and makes for enlightened conversation
Michael Chabon
#85. A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.
Barbara Holland
#86. I believe in love. I believe it transforms, transports, and transcends. I believe it fine-tunes goodness, solidifies strength, ripens resolve, eradicates rage, alleviates stress, and elevates empathy.
Lisa Kogan
#87. We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#88. These reflections have dispelled the agitation with which I began my letter, and I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. This
Mary Shelley
#89. If I may take the liberty to speak for science at least, today his name and his prizes are without a peer in the world. He not only elevates science but he influences it as well.
Melvin Calvin
#90. I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness.
Al Leiter
#91. The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.
Michael Pollan
#92. Friendship is strengthened by ... that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#93. Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
Kahlil Gibran
#94. Eating carbohydrates, for example, not only elevates insulin but inhibits growth-hormone secretion; both effects lead to greater fatty-acid storage in the fat tissue.
Gary Taubes
#95. When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.
Jean De La Bruyere
#96. If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.
Matthew Simpson
#97. A moment of care carries us away!
The fragrance of forgiveness elevates us
Imperfections are essentially universal
Divine love drives our desire.
Balroop Singh
#98. Prayer elevates and transforms you. Nourish your soul using this powerful communication tool every day, and you will never be the same again.
Pooja Ruprell
#99. Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.
Samuel Johnson
#100. So you're a reader," My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.
Denis Markell
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