Exalted Quotes

• I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Peace, One Day

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

  Frank Stella

  Art, Successful, Want

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• Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  God, Christian, Prayer

  Edward McKendree Bounds, Lyle W. Dorsett (1991). “E.M. Bounds: Man of Prayer”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

  Saint Patrick

  Wall, Lying, Compassion

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• He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humility, Wish, Existentialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Inspirational, Leadership, Money

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• An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John Gardner

  Philosophy, Humble, Water

  "Excellence, Can We be Equal and Excellent Too?" by John W. Gardner, (p. 86), 1961.

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• I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

  Charles Schumer

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

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• A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Wise, Ambition

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• Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.

  Emil Nolde

  Beautiful, Art, Believe

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• The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

  John W. Gardner

  Philosophy, Rain, Anger

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.97, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

  Samuel Butler

  Humble, Long, Use

  Samuel Butler (1950). “The Essential Samuel Butler”

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• The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Rejoice, Creatures

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.101

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• As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

  Abraham Clark

  War, Aggravation, Issues

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• Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

  Abraham Clark

  Gallows, Congress

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• To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls.

  Aristotle

  Education, Soul, Doe

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.266, Aristotle

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• Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Life, Christian, Men

  "The Pursuit of God". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1957.

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• We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

  Catherine Booth

  Destiny, Earth, Ends

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• It is sweet to remember that the exaltation of Christ in heaven is a representative exaltation. He is exalted at the Father's right hand, and though as Jehovah He had eminent glories, in which finite creatures cannot share, yet as the Mediator, the honours which Jesus wears in heaven are the heritage of all the saints. It is delightful to reflect how close is Christ's union with His people. We are actually one with Him; we are members of His body; and His exaltation is our exaltation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Jesus, Father

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• But your job is to work upon yourself: for this you are chosen; the rest is in the hands of God. He who humbles himself shall be exalted.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Jobs, Humility, Hands

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• God... is a personal Being, a holy and exalted man.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Men, Holy

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• Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no more highly when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, foolish, and to be despised; since what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

  Francis of Assisi

  Blessed, Men, People

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• Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Elegance, Refined

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• It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pursuit, Mankind, Delusion

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Fact and Fiction”, p.38, Routledge

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• An unstated but crucial premise is that the "responsible men" achieve that exalted status by their service to authentic power, a fact of life that they will discover soon enough if they try to pursue an independent path.

  Noam Chomsky

  Independent, Men, Soon Enough

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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