Elevation Quotes

Elevation Quote of the day

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.

Separation before elevation. You have to let some people and things go so you can go to the next level.

My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do not wish to replace Him with any other image

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of the Universe is in no way responsible for any of these absurdities.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man

Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.

Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.

There must be a remedy even for such a crying evil as this [abortion]. But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.

For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

All doctrine is ultimately the death of joy - even when the doctrine is the elevation of the light above the serious, because joy is too varied and elusive ever to confine itself to one or the other.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.

The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.

The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.

Northern white people love the Negro in a sort of abstract way, as a race; through a sense of justice, charity, and philanthropy, they will liberally assist in his elevation.

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

Sometimes what appears to be a setback is God's mode of elevation.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the possibility of compromise

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

Our true dignity consists — in thought. Thence we must derive our elevation, not from space or duration. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morals.

I have always defined political correctness as an elevation of sensitivity over truth.

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down - but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not.

To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.

What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.

The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.

Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

It's just strange to think that so much of our enjoyment from sports comes from the elevation of arbitrary differences.

It's like a spiritual elevation that occurs when you're playing and becoming one with the instrument or players on the stage.

They say the apple don't fall far from the tree but every apple has it own seeds