Quotes About Lifting Others

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

Booker T. Washington

#2. We rise by lifting others.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#3. The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#4. True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

Sheri Dew

#5. So many times after a catastrophe like 9/11, Estonia in Sweden, the Holocaust or whatever, we are so fond of lifting up the hero examples, but actually 99 percent of survivors have done something that they feel very guilty about.

Ruben Ostlund

#6. If I could only do one exercise, it would be dead lifting. For cardio, I dance, I ride my bike, I run and I have kids. There is a ... lot of cardio just from being a parent.

Hugh Jackman

#7. This is called "spiritual lifting." It's not heavy lifting. The governor of Texas should not be confused with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That's a powerful position. The governor of Texas can't do any heavy lifting really. It's not that powerful a position.

Kinky Friedman

#8. Heavy lifting doesn't need to be heavy spending if we do the job right.

Buzz Aldrin

#9. When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.

Harmon Killebrew

#10. Moved. Her arms lifting, she grabbed onto the headboard. "That's my good girl," he muttered against her mouth. "Promise to hold on." "I promise," she whispered and he kissed her.

Kristen Ashley

#11. Augustin stood there looking down at him and cursed him speaking slowly clearly bitterly and contemptuously and cursing as steadily as though he were dumping manure on a field lifting it with a dung fork out of a wagon.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. Beneath her cheek, his heart was thumping steadily. Definitely faster than his usual near-hibernation beat. Lifting her head, she flashed him a tight smile. "I get to you."
"Are you kidding? You own me," he said, his voice running over her like silk.

Jill Shalvis

#13. All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

Mary Renault

#14. Do not fear what you cannot lift, fear that which can lift you.

Uziel Matos Lima

#15. Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.

Meister Eckhart

#16. The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.

Samuel Hahnemann

#17. When you work to inspire others ... Your reward is in helping better themselves, lifting your life in the process.

Timothy Pina

#18. I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.

Ted Hughes

#19. You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

Criss Jami

#20. Before I came to New York I lived here, in this mausoleum. I was nothing. I was dead. When I came to New York it was like a veil lifting. For the first time I felt I was alive, breathing.

Jacqueline Susann

#21. And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That's an unusual way to work.

Charlie Kaufman

#22. Kindness is a magical spell - performed by enlightened beings - meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#23. When God's first in your life and your family's second, the perspective is that the platform as player is for the purpose of lifting up His name and glorifying Him in all you do. No matter what the platform is, that's the goal and that's the prayer before tonight's game and before every game.

Luke Zeller

#24. The orgasm came upon her unexpectedly. It slammed into her with the force of a tidal wave. Her breath locked in her lungs as the climax swept over her, lifting her up and carrying her to untold heights.

Donna Grant

#25. I drink a lot of protein shakes and do a lot of weight lifting.

Chanel Iman

#26. In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves.

Seth Adam Smith

#27. Lifting her head, she joined in as the others in the group began to howl in response to Brace's triumph. The sound was ... It touched the soul, the music haunting, starkly pure and yet so very earthy.

Nalini Singh

#28. There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Holmes

#29. Lifting our cup means sharing our life so we can celebrate it. When we truly believe we are called to lay down our lives for our friends, we must dare to take the risk to let others know what we are living.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#30. The past is an immense area of stony ground that many people would like to drive across as if it were a motorway, while others move patiently from stone to stone, lifting each one because they need to know what lies beneath.

Jose Saramago

#31. Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that things aren't worse and of praising and thereby lifting the spirits of others.

Aldous Huxley

#32. The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.

Johnny Hunt

#33. Happiness has two hands: one with strength for lifting up heavy hearts and a gentle hand for tickling.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#34. Love is waiting for you lifting to hand, open your heart, and accept it.

Debasish Mridha

#35. I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of and making your words symphonic.

Dennis Lehane

#36. I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Angelina Jolie

#37. You don't need to touch me in order to hurt me. You break my heart without lifting a finger, and that's why tonight happened.

Anonymous

#38. But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

Idries Shah

#39. He strengthened his body to keep up with his mind. He began lifting weights, practicing judo, and wrestling. One day after school, a bully tried to pick on Carmack's neighbor, only to become a victim of Carmack's judo skills.

David Kushner

#40. It wasn't until 'Thor' that I started lifting weights. It was all pretty new to me.

Chris Hemsworth

#41. I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.

Charles Barkley

#42. I've been lifting weights since I was literally 15 or 16 years old. My muscles are short and powerful and built to lift heavy weights, not to be graceful and glide around a dance floor.

Jake Pavelka

#43. If I'm boxing, I'll probably have rap on, or something a little more angry. If I'm lifting, maybe some rock 'n' roll. If I'm doing some cardio, something fast paced.

Steven R. McQueen

#44. You're right, it was a bad phone," I said, lifting an eyebrow. "Look at it, lying there, all superior. The phone had it coming.

Molly Harper

#45. There was no honor in grinding outsiders underfoot. There was no joy in burning their legacies. The highest good laid in lifting everyone up, believer and unbeliever alike, to enjoy the light.

C.K. Gold

#46. I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

Jane Kaczmarek

#47. I'd prefer to rise in love , she thinks - lifting up to the clouds , not plunging to the earth. She pictures herself , weightless and adored , delirious in ecstasy.

Jessie Burton

#48. Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children
clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer?

Diane Abbott

#49. I have said repeatedly I do want to take longer to eliminate the deficit than the other parties. Because I want to see us have the ability to invest more in our economy, in our public services, and in lifting people out of poverty.

Nicola Sturgeon

#50. What sort of work do you do?"
Lifting her skirts with one hand, still holding the owl in the other, she started for the cottage. "Quickening. Citizens of this spacetime call it clockwork magic."
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Sharon Lynn Fisher

#51. Some are born strong and others are made strong.

J.R. Rim

#52. I am, apparently, Darth Sullivan," he said, lifting a corner of bread to stuff the tomato back in. "I understand that building things, Death Stars or otherwise, isn't my particular strength.

Chloe Neill

#53. Aw, you messed up your hair, Colton teased, lifting the crown with the tip of his finger and giving me a sexy wink.

Anonymous

#54. When I first started lifting I wanted to be a Super Hero.. But that was my motivation. I was huge into comics at a very young age and nothing made me feel better than helping people. So I wanted to build muscle to be like Superman, Captain America, Wolverine, etc.

Scott Herman

#55. Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.

Henrik Ibsen

#56. I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God
Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

J.G. Holland

#57. As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future. But I have never, ever, in all my years seen a leader so committed to delivering that better future to America's children as Hillary Clinton.

Donna Brazile

#58. School is not like church.
I know a lot of people in my school are happy about this,
but I think that's because they've known the wrong kind
of churches, the ones that hold back instead of lifting up.

David Levithan

#59. The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's very hard to explain. You know the old story about the woman lifting the car off her kid? It's in that realm. You can actually hurt yourself and not know it.

Tom Petty

#60. Every relationship that we have with people today is either lifting us up or dragging us down

Sunday Adelaja

#61. Lifting his head to set his chin in the middle of her chest, Gage looked her in the eyes and murmured back, "Because you make me want to be more man than animal. You make me want to live and love deeply enough for one lifetime rather than live hundreds of lifetimes without you." - Gage

Jessie Lane

#62. I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.

Brad Meltzer