Uplifting Quotes - Page 17

• 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

  Motivational, Failure, Mean

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

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Success, Hard Work

  Booker T. Washington (2012). “Up from Slavery”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

  Wallis Simpson

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

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• Things do not change; we change.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'

  W. Clement Stone

  Funny, Congratulations, Worry

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

  Charles Saatchi

  Greatness, Tuesday, Lasts

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

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• Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail. Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Love, Strong, Character

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Thinking, America, Political

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

  Mark Hopkins

  Good Christian, Christianity, Globes

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

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• ... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure. ... of being creative individuals.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Mean, Achievement, Creative

  Norman Vincent Peale (1982). “The amazing results of positive thinking”, Fawcett

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• Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Healing, Health

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Sufi Mysticism”, p.351, Library of Alexandria

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• Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do and many things that they cannot.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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

  Marcus Garvey

  Justice, Diversity, Church

  1922 Speech to the Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, NewYork, 25 Nov.

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

  Doug E. Fresh

  Talking, People, Community

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• At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all.

  Ann Landers

  Funny, Retirement, Thinking

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• 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

  Courage, Heart, Fearless

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (2010). “Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume One: On Wisdom and Virtues”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Jenson Button

  Fun, Ocean, Tunes

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

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Hands, Heaven, Growing

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

  Howard Stern

  Believe, Humanity, Shows

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• We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Heart, Exercise, Giving

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• The greatest love of all is happening to me.. So goes the popular song. It's a great song. It speaks to the heart, and deeply. It strikes powerfully to uplift the human spirit, at the quest for self-love and self-esteem, the pride in being alive that each of us is entitled to experience simply by being born a human being.

  Robert J. White

  Song, Self Esteem, Heart

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• I love art. It is uplifting.

  Damien Hirst

  Love, Art

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• Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

  Yann Martel

  Moving, Reality, Hands

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• Words are powerful vibrations, use words to uplift your spirits and heal yourself.

  Ralph Smart

  Motivational, Powerful, Use

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• Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Stars, Opportunity, Sky

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