Uplifting Quotes - Page 16

• No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dignity Of Work, Humanity, Labor

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.

  Pope John Paul II

  Heart, Hands, Civilization

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• Everyone should get dirt on his hands each day. Doctors, intellectuals. Politicians, most of all. How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Men, Doctors, Hands

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.291, Faber & Faber

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• How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and uplift those around you. Profane, vulgar, or crude language and inappropriate or off-color jokes are offensive to the Lord. Never misuse the name of God or Jesus Christ. The Lord said, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain" (Ex. 20:7).

  Thomas S. Monson

  Jesus, Color, Names

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• Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Guilt, Purity, Confession

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “Collected Works”

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• This New Age is marking the dawn of a new world-thought. That new thought is a new cosmic concept of the value of man to man. The whole world is discovering that all mankind is one and that the unity of man is real – not just an abstract idea. Mankind is beginning to discover that the hurt of any man hurts every man, and, conversely, the uplift of any man uplifts every man

  Walter Russell

  Hurt, Real, Men

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• Even if it's something so simple as filling myself up with uplifting meditation so it's easier to spread kindness and love by the time I walk out my door and enter the world. I get a kick out of making a strangers day.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Kindness, Simple, Doors

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• Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Success

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• To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Change, Hope, Moving

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• The book works better if I know everything I can about the ending. Not just what happens, but how it happens and what the language is; not just the last sentence, but enough of the sentences surrounding that last sentence to know what the tone of voice is. I imagined it as something almost musical. Then you are writing toward something; you know the sound of your voice at the end of the story. That's how you want to sound in those final sentences: the degree that it is uplifting or not, the degree that it is melancholic or not.

  John Irving

  Book, Writing, Voice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Magic underlies the relationship between us, and the greater immensities of birth and death. Thus the experience of being in the presence of something magical is an empowering, uplifting experience. Magic, understood this way, contributes meaning to life.

  Brendan Myers

  Empowering, Magic, Way

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• I believe that God is a power underneath my life here on earth. His goodness undergirds me and uplifts me.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

  Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”

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• If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time.

  Henry C. Link

  Inspirational, Funny, Relationship

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• Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Letting Go

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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• Transformational entertainment is a story that both entertains and uplifts you, not simply because you are inspired, but because it reveals the mechanics that allow people to have more effective, loving lives, lives of more connection, community, and communion.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Live Life, Loving Life, People

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• 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

  Education, Country, Government

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• Do not consider painful what is good for you.

  Euripides

  Life, Spiritual, Discipline

  Euripides (2012). “Medea”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it. We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Memorial Day, Military, Thinking

  Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”

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• Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Albert Schweitzer, William Larimer Mellon (1996). “Brothers in Spirit: The Correspondence of Albert Schweitzer and William Larimer Mellon, Jr”, p.18, Syracuse University Press

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• When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Friendship, Relationship

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• The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Being Happy, Monday

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• 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

  Views, Numbers, Special

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

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

  Chuck D

  Government, Two, Culture

  "Return of the great rap rebel" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2008.

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