100+ Uplifting Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe . . . and Carl Sagan". Skeptical Inquirer Interview, Volume 27.6, www.csicop.org. November / December 2003.

topic: Uplifting, Spiritual, Tragedy, Great Tragedy

Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development - begun now and ending never. And a life made true cannot confine itself - it must reach out and twine around every pulsing interest within reach of its uplifting tendrils.

- Anna Julia Cooper

topic: Uplifting, Growth, Development, Within Reach

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Uplifting, Ocean, Blessing, Gospel Music, Minutiae

Few things are more beautiful to me than a bunch of thuggish, heavily tattooed line cooks moving around each other like ballerinas on a busy Saturday night. Seeing two guys who'd just as soon cut each other's throats in their off hours moving in unison with grace and ease can be as uplifting as any chemical stimulant or organized religion.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Beautiful, Uplifting, Moving, Stimulants, Two Guys

Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.

- Anthony Burgess

source: Anthony Burgess (2012). “The Kingdom of the Wicked”, p.4, Allison & Busby

topic: Uplifting, Philosophy, Literature, Moral Philosophy

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

- Anton Corbijn

topic: Uplifting

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

- Aretha Franklin

topic: Uplifting, Years, People

As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked sense of humor, and a two-fisted style of prose. In Dead Star Twilight, he turns all these on himself -- and produces a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Uplifting, Stars, Twilight, Million Little Pieces

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Birthday, Marriage, Uplifting, Inspirational Age, Ageing

No matter what difficulty you are facing, it is coming from Divine Light to bring you to a higher place within. Write down every conceivable reason that this situation can contribute towards your growth. Write down every way this experience can possibly set the stage for serving to uplift others. When you are complete, and have come to the other side of this experience, you will then know 'why' it happened.

- Barbara Rose

topic: Uplifting, Writing, Light, Divine Light

I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.

- Ben Kingsley

topic: Uplifting, Father, Son

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin (2013). “The Art of Virtue: Ben Franklin's Formula for Successful Living”, p.1, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Uplifting, Tempting, Wrong Things

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Birthday, Inspiring, Uplifting

I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Uplifting, Memorial Day, Native American, Proud To Be An American, Eating Bread

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

- Booker T. Washington

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Planners, Perseverance And Hard Work

To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Uplifting, Thinking, Goal

When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

- Byron Katie

topic: Uplifting, Simple, Reality, Katie

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Uplifting, Walks

Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.

- C.E. Murphy

source: C.E. Murphy (2010). “Truthseeker”, p.42, Del Rey

topic: Uplifting, Leaving, Stripping, Stripping Away

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

- Carl Jung

topic: Leadership, Uplifting, Relaxation

I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud.

- Carl Jung

topic: Inspirational, Uplifting, Stupidity, Parapsychology

... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.

- Carolyn Wells

topic: Uplifting, Men, Color, Thousand Miles

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

- Carter G. Woodson

topic: Leadership, Uplifting, Ghetto

Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness in this vale of tears, to a certain amount of the purest joy that earth can giver her children, joy that is tranquil, innocent, uplifting, unfailing.

- Celia Thaxter

source: Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books

topic: Uplifting, Children, Flower, Tranquil, True Lovers

Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer.

- Celia Thaxter

source: Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.5, Applewood Books

topic: Uplifting, Cheer, Flower, Comforter, Dear Friend

We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods pour forth volcanic matter from open orifices, are identical.

- Charles Darwin

topic: Uplifting, Matter, May, Geology

Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday.

- Charles Saatchi

source: Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

topic: Uplifting, Greatness, Tuesday

The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.

- Chris Martin

topic: Uplifting, Ghost Stories, Ideas

I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.

- Chris Ware

topic: Uplifting, Depressing, Laughter, Portrayal, Blind Optimism

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

- Christopher Hitchens

topic: Uplifting, Strong, Atheist, Bazaars, God Is Not Great

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

- Christopher Reeve

topic: Uplifting, Giving Up, Sold Out, Selling Out, Don't Lose Hope

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

- Chuck D

topic: Uplifting, Government, Two

With people increasingly faced with turmoil, uncertainty and crisis, I wanted to create music that uplifts the listener and offers a sense of hope to prevail.

- Clifton Anderson

topic: Uplifting, People, Turmoil

By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of simplicity. In this new simplicity you soon find that you have become, in a new and surer sense, and integral part of the simple, complex world you are walking through. And then you are really walking.

- Colin Fletcher

source: Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.849, Knopf

topic: Uplifting, Simple, Simplicity, Coolness, Delirious

The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.

- Colin Powell

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

- Colin Powell

topic: Uplifting, Men, Racism

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

- Dada Vaswani

topic: Uplifting, Giving, Mind, Authentic Happiness

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Uplifting, Kindness, Complicated World, Spiritual Awakening

With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection.

- Damian Pettigrew

source: The Los Angeles Times, April 2003.

topic: Uplifting, Running, Essence

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

- Damien Hirst

topic: Uplifting, Art, Believe, Painting And Art

I love art. It is uplifting.

- Damien Hirst

topic: Love, Uplifting, Art

With tremendous clarity and wisdom, Daniel Tomasulo has crafted a memoir at once heartbreaking and uplifting. Layers of time and memoryâ€”childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle ageâ€”are so beautifully revealed here, a trenchant reminder that our pasts are alive inside of us. There are psychologists who can write, and writers who can psychologize, but rarely have the two met on the page with such moving, profound results.

- Dani Shapiro

topic: Uplifting, Memories, Moving

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.

- Danielle Fotopoulos

topic: Uplifting, Goal, Gone

Parents...rigidly monitor the selection of television programs...and other forms of entertainment for your family. Foster in your homes a love of knowledge through uplifting literature; wholesome books; selective movies; classical and exemplary popular music; entertainment that uplifts and edifies the spirit and mind.

- David B. Haight

topic: Uplifting, Book, Home, Popular Music

To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.

- David Cottrell

source: David Cottrell, Eric Lee Harvey (2004). “Leadership Courage: Leadership Strategies for Individual and Organizational Success”, p.17, The Walk The Talk Company

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Accepting Responsibility

One makes a gift of one's life and endeavors by sanctifying it with love, and devotion and selfless service. When seeking to uplift others, we are uplifted in the process. Every kind thought or smile therefore benefits oneself as well as all the world.

- David Hawkins

topic: Uplifting, Benefits, World, Kind Thoughts, Selfless Service

So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay great heed to every noble, uplifting desire that is in you; but realize that these things alone are not enough, that they will never bring you to the desired place. We have to realize that all our best is totally inadequate, that a spiritual battle must be fought in a spiritual manner.

- David Lloyd-Jones

topic: Uplifting, Spiritual, Desire

Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course, the more closely he meets their needs, the less "persuasive" he has to be, but in no case does it make sense to speak as if his role is force submission. Rather it is to strengthen and uplift, to make people feel that they are the origins, not the pawns, of the socio-political system.

- David McClelland

source: "Leadership: what every leader should know about people". Book by Robert A. Portnoy (p. 16), 1986.

topic: Uplifting, Ideas, Goal

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Inspirational, Uplifting, Choices, Our Choices, Different Choices

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Uplifting, Children, Eye, Eyes Of A Child, Through The Eyes Of A Child

Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Uplifting, Stars, Quarks

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Uplifting, Reflection, Who We Are, Alternative Medicine

Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Uplifting, Spiritual, Song, Spiritual Music

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

- Desiderius Erasmus

topic: Inspirational, Uplifting, Light, Darkness To Light, Light And Dark

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

- Diane Arbus

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Cutting Edge, Action Not Words

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

- Dolly Parton

source: Twitter post from Nov 03, 2010

topic: Uplifting, People, Entrepreneur, Badass Women

Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important.

- Donald L. Hallstrom

topic: Uplifting, People, Unity

When dealing with a difficult person, all that matters from a spiritual standpoint is how you react and treat the person. It's not about getting the other person to change or agree with you. Your spiritual growth is all about the way that YOU deal with the relationship, the person, and the situation. Even if the situation would justify you acting harshly, resist this temptation. Ask for heaven to purify and uplift your thoughts and feelings so that everything you do and say is aligned with Divine Love. This is the path and purpose of the lightworker. This is why you are here.

- Doreen Virtue

source: FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Jan 31, 2017

topic: Uplifting, Spiritual, Heaven, Standpoint, Spiritual Growth

Forgiveness is the key to breaking the cycle of karma and reincarnation. Forgiveness doesn't mean: "What you did was okay." It simply means, "I'm no longer willing to carry the heavy toxic burdens of anger, resentment, and victimhood in my soul." You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!

- Doreen Virtue

source: FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 28, 2011

topic: Uplifting, Karma, Forgiveness, Victimhood, Anger Resentment

Today, recall a favorite memory, which serves as a gateway to uplifting feelings and thoughts.

- Doreen Virtue

topic: Uplifting, Memories, Feelings, Favorite Memories

You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!

- Doreen Virtue

topic: Uplifting, Healing, Forgiving

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

- Doug E. Fresh

topic: Uplifting, Education, People

There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them.

- Doug E. Fresh

topic: Uplifting, Talking, People

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Inspirational, Uplifting, Destiny, Life And Destiny, Life Destiny

Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: Uplifting, Philosophy, Men, Masonry, Freemasonry

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...

- e. e. cummings

topic: Love, Life, Uplifting

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

- Earl Nightingale

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting, My Journey, Wonderful Journey

Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.

- Ebenezer Elliott

topic: Uplifting, Hands, Heaven

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Uplifting, Spiritual, Fighting

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Uplifting

Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars.

- Edwin Percy Whipple

topic: Uplifting, Nature, Stars

When one door closes another opens. Expect that new door to reveal even greater wonders and glories and surprises. Feel yourself grow with every experience. And look for the reason for it.

- Eileen Caddy

topic: Uplifting, Doors, Looks

True love is supposed to make you into a better person-uplift you.

- Emily Giffin

topic: Uplifting, True Love, Love Is, Love The One You Re

Recognize success with thanksgiving and build more success on that.

- Emmet Fox

topic: Uplifting

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

- Epictetus

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Uplifting, Surround Yourself With Good People, Company We Keep

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

- Epictetus

source: Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications

topic: Positive, Uplifting, Money, Inspirational Money, Money Management

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

- Epictetus

topic: Positive, Encouraging, Uplifting, Inspirational Adversity, Uplifting In Hard Times

As a collector, you will discover that surrounding yourself with art can enrich not only your visual experiences, but instill a sense of vitality to your life and uplift your soul.

- Ernest West Basden

topic: Uplifting, Art, Soul

Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

- Federico Fellini

topic: Beautiful, Uplifting, Laughter

Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read.

- Fiona Walker

topic: Uplifting, Real, Writing

Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Motivational, Uplifting, Failure, Nothing Is Impossible, Making Excuses

pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

- Francoise Sagan

topic: Uplifting, Military, Pity

If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it.

- Fred Allen

source: Fred Allen (2016). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.121, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Uplifting, Cutting, Worry, Grass Is Greener

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

- Fred Rogers

source: Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.17, Penguin

topic: Motivational, Depression, Uplifting, Inspiring Self Esteem

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

- Frederick Douglass

source: Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.355, Hackett Publishing

topic: Uplifting, Mean, Men, Emancipation

We have tried everything to get rid of suffering. We have gone everywhere to get rid of suffering. We have bought everything to get rid of it. We have ingested everything to get rid of it. Finally, when one has tried enought, there arises the possibility of spiritual maturity with the willingness to stop the futile attempt to get rid of it and, instead, to actually experience suffering. In that momentous instant, there is the realization of that which is beyond suffering, of that which is untouched by suffering. There is the realization of who one truly is.

- Gangaji

topic: Uplifting, Spiritual, Maturity, Spiritual Maturity

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

- Gary Hamel

topic: Uplifting, Accomplishment, Purpose, Insurance Policy, Impetus

We have taught our people to use prayer too much as a means of comfort - not in the original and heroic sense of uplifting, inspiring, strengthening, but in the more modern and baser sense of soothing sorrow, dulling pain, and drying tears - the comfort of the cushion, not the comfort of the Cross.

- Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy

topic: Uplifting, Pain, Prayer

In uplifting, get underneath.

- George Ade

source: George Ade (2016). “Fables in Slang”, p.25, Youcanprint

topic: Uplifting

It's always something

- Gilda Radner

topic: Uplifting, Clutter

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

- Ginger Rogers

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Uplifting, Work, Inspiration, Ginger

Gossip is hardly uplifting.

- Ginger Rogers

topic: Uplifting, Gossip

We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.

- Gladys Knight

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Uplifting, Blessed, Responsibility, Betterment, Personal Responsibility

I've always loved journaling as a way to clear my mind. Whether I'm traveling or at home, the first thing I do when I wake up is pull out my notebook and record positive things that have happened to me as well as uplifting thoughts.

- Gloria Reuben

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Notebook, Uplifting, Home, Journaling

Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never previously been aware. To such a woman, childbirth is a monument of joy within her memory. She turns to it in thought to seek again an ecstasy which passed too soon.

- Grantly Dick-Read

topic: Uplifting, Spiritual, Memories, Childbirth, Joy Within

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

- Gregory Maguire

topic: Funny, Uplifting, Baby, Dry Up, Grim

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Love, Being Happy, Uplifting, Happy Anniversary, You Make Me Happy

Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the loss of the world of senses is possible, I shall grieve for no person however once agonisingly desired and passionately beloved, for no emotional adventure however uplifting, for no success however warming, no infamy however exhilarating, for nothing half so much as I shall grieve to the loss of the earth itself, the soil, the seeds, the plants, the very weeds... It is a love almost overriding my love the words that could express that love.

- Hal Porter

topic: Uplifting, Weed, Adventure

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.

- Hamish Bowles

topic: Uplifting, Country, Fashion, Energizing, Fashion Business

When Spirit comes into your life, It will uplift you and give you an understanding into the problems and the joys of your daily life. It gives direction, and for many people this is the first time that they have found it.

- Harold Klemp

topic: Uplifting, People, Giving

It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

- Helen Fielding

topic: Uplifting, Fun, Writing, Hair Dryers, Dryers

We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy... It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love.

- Henri Nouwen

topic: Uplifting, Lying, Opportunity

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Uplifting, Sports, Hunting And Fishing, Fly Fishing

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Uplifting, Nature, Opera, Lurking

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

- Henry Ford

topic: Uplifting, Memorial Day, America, Memorial Day Messages, Happy Memorial Day

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

- Hermann Hesse

topic: Inspirational, Faith, Uplifting, Good Fortune, Bad Fortune

Since Im in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?

- Hill Harper

topic: Uplifting, Thinking, Mirrors

An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by constantly judging my body. I devoured this book-it's deliciously inspiring!

- Hillary Carlip

topic: Uplifting, Book, Self

The force of union conquers all.

- Homer

topic: Uplifting, Unions, Conquer

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate upon it in order to get the most of it. You must absorb most of it. The harmonies within the music can relax, soothe, relax, and uplift the mind when you concentrate upon and absorb it. Jazz music stimulates the minds and uplifts the souls of those who play it was well as of those who listen to immerse themselves in it. As the mind is stimulated and the soul uplifted, this is eventually reflected in the body.

- Horace Silver

topic: Uplifting, Order, Play

I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting.

- Howard Stern

topic: Uplifting, Believe, Humanity

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

- Isaac Newton

source: Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Famous Last Words, Mathematics And Science

Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your spirit would be delighted to partake in a feast of spiritual food? How about a plate full of prayer? Or maybe a few hours of succulent self-reflection. Perhaps a piping-hot selection of spiritual literature, served by the side of a lake or under a tree, would satisfy your spiritual hunger. Can you imagine feasting for a few hours on spiritually uplifting music? What about some forgiveness Ã la mode, topped with compassion? You cannot imagine how much your spirit would enjoy it.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Uplifting, Spiritual, Prayer, Spiritual Food, Spiritual Hunger

Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Uplifting, Garments, Tales, Universal Truth, Everlasting Life

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

- Jack Canfield

source: FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Jul 22, 2014

topic: Uplifting, Dream, Believe

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

- Jack Miller

topic: Uplifting, Lying, Example, Stature

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

- James A. Baldwin

topic: Funny, Uplifting, Baby, My Baby Boy, Baby Boy

No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of morality of life, consecration of person to high ideals, devotion to truth, patriotism to nation, and allegiance to God.

- James E. Talmage

source: James E. Talmage (2015). “The House of the Lord”, p.102, Latter-day Strengths

topic: Uplifting, Covenant, Temples, Ordinances, Endowment

If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.

- James M. Kouzes

source: James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (2008). “A Leader's Legacy”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Funny, Uplifting, Running

I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing.

- Jenson Button

topic: Uplifting, Fun, Ocean

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

- Jeremy Collier

topic: Uplifting, Brave, Mind

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

- Jerry Saltz

topic: Uplifting, Morning, New York, Panorama, World Trade Center

When ypu awaken love and laughter in your life, your mind lets go of fear and anxiety, and your happy spirit becomes the healing balm that transforms every aspect of your human experience.

- Jesse Dylan

source: Jesse Dylan (2009). “The Good Life with Jesse Dylan: Redefining Your Health with the Greatest Visionaries of Our Time”, p.10, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Uplifting, Letting Go, Laughter, Happy Spirit, Love And Laughter

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Uplifting, Spiritual, Fear, Coming To An End

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.

- Jim Leach

topic: Uplifting, Thinking, America, Political Dialogue

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

- Jim Wallis

topic: Uplifting, Political, Leader, Moral Failure

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting, Positive Change, Inspirational Attitude

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

- Joe Paterno

source: "We were..." by Wright Thompson, www.espn.com. November 24, 2011.

topic: Life, Uplifting, Running, Destined, Deep Down

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

- Joel Osteen

topic: Inspirational, Uplifting, Encouragement, Listening Ear

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Uplifting, Victory And Defeat

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Happiness, Uplifting, Smart

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.

- John A. Logan

source: "Memorial Day Order" by John A. Logan, www.cem.va.gov. May 5, 1868.

topic: Uplifting, Memorial Day, People, Memorial Day Poems, Memorial Day Weekend

Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus.

- John C. Wright

topic: Uplifting, Dream, Brother, Comical, Wright Brothers

Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.

- John Galsworthy

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Uplifting

He believes that words can be a powerful healing tool if used with loving intention, to uplift, encourage and inspire.

- John McLeod

topic: Love, Uplifting, Powerful

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

- John Ruskin

topic: Uplifting, Stars, Sky

The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.

- John Stott

topic: Inspirational, Success, Uplifting, Old Traditions

Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We're either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we're doing something else.

- Joko Beck

topic: Uplifting, Block, Self

Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limit.... A passion for life is contagious and uplifting. Passion cuts both ways.... Those that make you feel on top of the world are equally able to turnit upside down.....

- Jon Krakauer

topic: Uplifting, Passion, Cutting, Top Of The World, Passion For Life

Each one of us is God's special work of art. Through us, He teaches and inspires, delights and encourages, informs and uplifts all those who view our lives.

- Joni Eareckson Tada

topic: Uplifting, Faith, Art

Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are uplifting and entertaining, we need to be very selective in choosing what we see and how much of our time such an activity deserves. Our precious time must not be diverted to the sideline attractions of vulgar language, immoral conduct, pornography, and violence.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

topic: Uplifting, Media, Needs, Watching Television, Precious Time

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

- Josh Radnor

topic: Uplifting, Men, Sentimental

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

- Joyce Meyer

source: Twitter post from Feb 22, 2013

topic: Depression, Uplifting, Attitude, Overcoming Depression, Depressed People

War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring and sharing side uplifts us, or we can continue to embrace a worldview where domination using violence imprisons us in cycles of killing and destruction. I'm a biologist, and war is not genetically fixed. War is a cultural invention. It's time to end this abomination, and this World Beyond War movement is uniquely focused on unifying the human community to create one of the biggest revolutions in history. I'm in. Join us!

- Judith Hand

topic: Uplifting, War, Caring, Human History, Pivotal Moments

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

- Judy Gold

topic: Uplifting, Believe, Doctors, Ocd

It's your life; live it well.

- Judy Sheindlin

topic: Uplifting, Wells

Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend's offer to help you with what you are doing.

- Julia Cameron

topic: Uplifting, Hands, Helping

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 Jaspers

source: "Man in the Modern Age". Book by Karl Jaspers, 1933.

topic: Uplifting, Views, Numbers, Nevertheless

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.

- Karrine Steffans

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Uplifting, Journey, People

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.

- Kaskade

topic: Uplifting, Spiritual, Hymns, Dance Music

If youre a sugar addict like most people, you need to read Beyond Sugar Shock. This compassionate, comforting, uplifting book will change your life.

- Kathy Smith

topic: Uplifting, Book, People

I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as? Has a man in the history of men ever been asked if he was going to be pigeonholed because he wrote two consecutive books with male leads?

- Kelly Sue DeConnick

source: "'So My Daughter Won't Have To': Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics". Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, www.yesmagazine.org. January 29, 2014.

topic: Uplifting, Team, Book, Consecutive

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Uplifting, Faith, Philosophical, Spiritual Faith, Caravans

If you wanna help, inspire, uplift, don't point the blame and talk down,

- Kid Cudi

source: "Azealia Banks and Kid Cudi lay into Kendrick Lamar over Ferguson", www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2015.

topic: Uplifting, Inspire, Helping

People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.

- Kim Woo-jung

topic: Uplifting, Fire, Light, Credentials

Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal, MC's spit rhymes to uplift their people.

- KRS-One

topic: Uplifting, Rap, People, Rap Song, Emcee

If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt young minds, it also has the ability to Uplift them.

- KRS-One

topic: Uplifting, Hip Hop, Mind, Young Minds

If we have power to degrade an entire society, then we also have the power to uplift it.

- KRS-One

topic: Uplifting

The uplift of a fearless heart will help us over barriers. No one ever overcomes difficulties by going at them in a hesitant, doubtful way.

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

topic: Uplifting, Courage, Heart, Hesitant

If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally, and if something blocks your route, find another. Never give up.

- Laurie Notaro

topic: Uplifting, Giving Up, Block

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.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Uplifting, Recovery, Doors

A delightful, intelligent read. Jim Zirin's sparkling account of life in the Second Circuit's famed MOTHER COURT is informative, riveting, accessible, and uplifting.Â It would be criminal not to read this book.

- Linda Fairstein

topic: Uplifting, Mother, Book

Love is not always doing what brings pleasure; love is also doing what is good for someone, whatever the cost at the moment. sometimes, it's leaving... for awhile - and the love is shown, then, in the pain given. For pain is a lesson best learned from the one who loves you the most.

- Linda Goodman

topic: Uplifting, Pain, Love You, Pleasure Love

Uplift, your mind is a gift.

- LL Cool J

source: Song: The Power of God, Album: Mama Said Knock You Out

topic: Uplifting, Expression, Mind

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

- Loretta Young

topic: Love, Uplifting, I Like You, Love Is Life, Surrender To Love

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

- Louise Hay

topic: Uplifting, Self, Supportive, Self Talk

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

- Louise Hay

topic: Uplifting, Thinking, Influence

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

- Lucille Ball

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Uplifting, Work Done, Monday Morning Motivational

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

- Lucy Fry

topic: Uplifting, Surprising, Fulfilling

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Positive, Encouraging, Uplifting, Green Gables, Trying And Failing

This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer poverty than any other session in all American history, and what more worthy achievements could any person want to have? For it was the Congress that was more true than any other Congress to Thomas Jefferson's belief that: 'The care of human life and happiness is the first and only legitimate objective of good Government.'

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Uplifting, Education, Country

The creation of NIT has ensured some seats for admission in undergraduate courses for students of Arunachal Pradesh, which will bound to uplift economics of locality directly or indirectly and help in enhancing human development index in the state.

- M. M. Pallam Raju

topic: Uplifting, Development, Helping, Locality

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Positive, Leadership, Uplifting, Positive Thoughts, Life Philosophy

A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Uplifting, Determination, Men

Jonas' music is inspiring, energizing, and spiritually uplifting. A brilliant songwriter, he writes music that reaches deep into the soul and awakens the best and highest in all of us. And Jonas delivers his songs with a power, joy, and grace that last long after the last note is played. The world needs this music!

- Marci Shimoff

topic: Uplifting, Song, Writing, Energizing

We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

- Marcus Garvey

topic: Uplifting, Justice, Church, Church Buildings, Nation Building

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

- Margaret Mead

topic: Uplifting, Work, Values, Motivation And Hard Work, Successful Work

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

- Mark Hopkins

source: Mark Hopkins (1886). “A Discourse Delivered at Williamstown, June 29, 1886: On the Fiftieth Anniversary of His Election as President of Williams College”

topic: Uplifting, Christianity, Globes

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

- Martha Graham

topic: Positive, Uplifting, Dance

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Change, Uplifting, Spiritual, Social Programs, Soul Force

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Uplifting, Work, Teaching, Making A Difference In The World, Manual Labor

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.