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. — Martin Delany
With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up. — Sun Tzu
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. — Doug Larson
Every one looking downwards becomes impressed with ideas of his own greatness, but looking upwards, he feels his own littleness. — Indian Proverbs
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. — Jonathan Edwards
It is not your aptitude, but your attitude, that determines your altitude. — Zig Ziglar
I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there. — Augusto Pinochet
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. — Alexander Pope
Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. — Zig Ziglar
I believe it is our attitude that determines our altitude. It is our attitude that allows us to soar above those things that would otherwise overcome us. — T. D. Jakes
Short Elevation Quotes
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love — Bhagat Singh
I'm building a dream with elevators in it. — Rick Ross
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down. — Maria Callas
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time. — Joe Girard
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada. — Farley Mowat
Life is like an elevator. Up and down, just make sure you get off on the right floor. — Keith Douglas
Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs. — Jenifer Lewis
Elevation Image Quotes
No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down. — Jack Lemmon
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs. One step at a time.
Self Elevation Quotes
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. — Samuel Johnson
Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired. — Samuel Smiles
If we think we are usually good, then God is usually irrelevant... Such thinking ignores the depths of sin in my own heart, and, in essence, it elevates me so that I am just a mildly flawed imitation of God rather than someone completely dependent on Him. — Edward T Welch
Never make the mistake of thinking that you elevate yourself by humiliating people.
The person who loves his life will lose it: it could not be otherwise, for to love one's life is a fundamental denial of God's sovereignty, of God's rights, and a brazen elevation of self to the apogee of one's perception, and therefore an idolatrous focus on self, which is the heart of all sin — D. A. Carson
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. — Edward Dahlberg
The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of faith over reason, and intolerance make institutionalized religion an ideal instrument of social constraint. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
If you’re lucky enough to do well, it’s your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example. — Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mind Elevation Quotes
A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit. — Haile Selassie
The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama. — Sathya Sai Baba
I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people — Joseph Pulitzer
There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.
Your mind shines brightest when you enlighten others; your heart, when you encourage others; your soul, when you elevate others; and your life, when you empower others. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Algaliarept varied its shape, sifting through my mind without me even knowing to choose what scared me the most. Once it had been Ivy. Then Kisten —until I had pinned him in an elevator in a foolish moment of vampire-induced passion. It's hard to be scared of someone after you've French-kissed him. — Kim Harrison
Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion. — Lorraine Moller
There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs...
When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. Every person who aspires must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a better life. — Uell Stanley Andersen
A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies. — Richard Hofstadter
The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred or elevating, and brought to a state of absolute emptiness, from which alone it may one day perceive its own true nature, or the nature of the universe. — Philip Kapleau
Spiritual Elevation Quotes
If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness. — Lao Tzu
Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life. — E. O. Wilson
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path. — Dalai Lama
If you're lucky enough to do well, it's your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
Punctuality is a quality the need of which is bound up with social co-operation. It has nothing to do with the relation of the soul to God, or with mystic insight, or with any of the matters with which the more elevated and spiritual moralists are concerned. — Bertrand Russell
The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him. — Maria Montessori
The packaging for music has become a sort of King James Bible, where it elevates the contents to something more spiritual. This is something else that drove me to a newspaper format. I thought, "Let's put it in a newspaper, to get away from that spiritual thing." — Stanley Donwood
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. — Eugene Green
A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight. — Barbara Holland
Precious few are those who can live in the lap of luxury ... who can keep their moral, spiritual and financial equilibrium ... while balancing on the elevated tightrope of success. ... there is about one in a hundred who can dance to the tune of success without paying the piper named Compromise. — Charles R. Swindoll
I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's the spiritual aspect. Painting is a spiritual practice, but sometimes it is hard to give up control! — Pat Steir
Building Elevation Quotes
I respect Israel as hugely special, especially given all the sensitivities around it. The Jews managed to build a country, to elevate it, without anything except people and brains. — Volodymyr Zelenskyy
But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures. — Nicholas Negroponte
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel. — Daniel H. Wilson
I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line. — Dick Wolf
Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect — Linda Howard
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. — Alan Patricof
If I have to move up in a building, I choose the elevator over the escalator. Because one time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down the stairs for an hour and a half. — Demetri Martin
When a grown man is chasing you around a building or running through the hotel and trying to jump in your elevator, oh man, I can't even see it. What excitement can you possibly get from having my autograph besides selling it? — Clinton Portis
When you open the elevator on the top floor of a building and the other guy doesn't get out, something is seriously wrong. — Mitch Hedberg
Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I cant imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building. — Marco Brambilla
High Elevation Quotes
Triglyceride levels affect cholesterol size and risk. Elevated triglycerides with high insulin increase the danger of cholesterol by reducing its size, making it more risky for cardiovascular health. — Gary Brecka
To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them. — James MacGregor Burns
Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation. — Bruce Lee
When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate our actions (even if they're taking place within the profane arena of commerce) beyond ego and above gimme-gimme ambition. — Steven Pressfield
I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force. — Stephen R. Lawhead
Team spirit elevates with a broad-based contribution to the group effort. It's especially important for the high-performing leader to avoid the situation of one or two people being the only contributors during a meeting. — Andrew J Dubrin
I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep. — Hrithik Roshan
Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune. — Plutarch
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. — Yann Martel
He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one's gaze. — Galileo Galilei
Some Elevation Quotes
By some ardent enthusiasts Chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be - what human nature mostly delights in - a fight. — Emanuel Lasker
Separation before elevation. You have to let some people and things go so you can go to the next level. — Tony Gaskins
Cate Blanchett is mesmerizing. I don't know why. It's beyond my understanding. Why we all want to work with her is she elevates the rest of us. She's just got some ethereal grace and elegance that's beyond me, and an acute understanding of human nature. She's just exquisite. She's otherworldly. — Brad Pitt
The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary. — Caitlín R. Kiernan
People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it's big money, so people are elevated in status. If I was a bus driver, I'm sure you wouldn't be interviewing me. — Adam Garcia
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. — Walter Savage Landor
The more composed scenes are like elevator music compared to some of the more dynamic styles of music. One is not better than the other. They both deserve their spots in the world. — Jean Wilson
... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them. — Albert Einstein
The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew what would happen to ice cream, but it would probably involve some rewriting of the laws of thermodynamics. — Terry Pratchett
While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future. — John Podhoretz
You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible...Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective. — Charles R. Swindoll
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world. — Ellen G. White
Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups. — Patricia Hill Collins
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church. — Edith Stein
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. — Edgar Allan Poe
Socialism violates at least three of the Ten Commandments: It turns government into God, it legalizes thievery and it elevates covetousness. Discussions of income inequality, after all, aren't about prosperity but about petty spite. Why should you care how much money I make, so long as you are happy? — Ben Shapiro
When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others. — Edith Piaf
I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space. — Peter Zumthor
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. — Washington Irving
The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding. — Peter Joseph
Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny. — William E. Gladstone
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Our differences in beliefs
do not truly separate us,
or elevate us over others.
Rather,
they highlight the rich tapestry
that is humanity. — George Takei
Engage, educate, equip, encourage, empower, energize, and elevate. Those are the methods for maximizing the potential of any individual, team, organization, or institution for ultimate success and significance. Those are the methods of a mentor leader. — Tony Dungy
My goal is to continue to learn, grow, and elevate my competition with every fight. — Jake Paul
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. — Muhammad Iqbal
We walk through another part of the building. While we wait for an elevator, Dr. Kenyon unfolds a dinner-size napkin and holds it up in the air in front of his forehead. This is about the size of your brain, spread out, he says. The part that matters. The cerebral cortex. The 100 billion neurons there are also known as the brain’s gray matter. And the human brain does things beyond anyone’s comprehension. Evolution created the smartest machine in this world. — Annie Jacobsen
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. — Henry David Thoreau
As members of a social species endowed with large brains, we are natural-born marketers. Capitalism, the economic system that has elevated innumerable people out of abject poverty and misery, is founded on marketing. Everything that defines your daily existence has the indelible marks of marketing on it. — Gad Saad
Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life. — Lucretia Mott
I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift. — Kevin Spacey
It's so weird man, it's like the v*gina is an elevator door that opens up into this dimension, and sometimes that elevator puts you out on to a bad f*cking floor! — Duncan Trussell
Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise. — Henry Clay
You know, Sal, for a long time would hate taking elevators with me. Because he knew when those doors closed I was going to do something stupid to embarrass him. So he'd opt to take the stairs a lot. — Joe Gatto
The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open. — Zig Ziglar
The sauna robustly elevates heat shock protein levels that can persist for up to 48hrs. Heat shock proteins play a preventative role in neurodegenerative diseases and sauna use is associated with a 66% lower risk of Alzheimer's disease. — Rhonda Patrick
Both SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 vaccines cause blood clots. Sadly because the vaccines do not work, most people have been vaccinated and have COVID-19 anyway, so their risk of blood clots is even further elevated. mRNA causing clots in large numbers. — Peter A. McCullough
An evolutionary perspective predicts that most diets and fitness programs will fail, as they do, because we still don’t know how to counter once-adaptive primal instincts to eat donuts and take the elevator. — Daniel Lieberman
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