100 Lifting Quotes

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Famous Lifting Quotes

Cheer up every person you interact with (including yourself). — Sark

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark Twain

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. — Mark Twain

Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul. — Therese of Lisieux

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else. — Arnold Bennett

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. — Bible Proverbs

Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future. — Florence Littauer

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. — Bible Proverbs

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds. - Dorothea Dix

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds. — Dorothea Dix

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. — Lydia M. Child

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer. — Henry Ward Beecher

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. — Oliver Sacks

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. - A. A. Milne

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. — A. A. Milne

Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6). — William Gurnall

Short Lifting Quotes

  • If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. — Booker T. Washington
  • Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weight. — Ronnie Coleman
  • Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. — Aristotle
  • He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands. — Benedict of Nursia
  • Hard work and training. There's no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best. — Ronnie Coleman
  • Rolex, mo sex, good weed, no stress, run my town, arms, chest, lift weights, bowflex — Wiz Khalifa
  • Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. — Christian Louboutin
  • Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for. — Kabir
  • If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lifting Image Quotes

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. - Oprah Winfrey quote

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. — Oprah Winfrey

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream. - John Eliot quote

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream. — John Eliot

Lifting quote Choose people who lift you up.
Choose people who lift you up.

Lift My Spirits Quotes

If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in. — Cyndi Lauper

I love watching comedies. It's my favorite thing to watch and it always lifts my spirits. — LeToya Luckett

If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. — William Shakespeare

Lifting quote Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Friends are angels who lift our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

If I have a rough day, and I'm angry, I'll just go into Kirk Douglas and throw over a table. And when I need to lift my spirits, Kermit can always do the trick. — Rich Little

The traveling and adventure always lift my spirits soaring with exhilaration. — Emile Hirsch

My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you. — Mavis Staples

Lifting quote Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

To all my fans, thank you for your time and your love and your positive energy. It lifts my spirit and it means the world to me that I mean anything to you, so thank you. — Camile Velasco

The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit. — William Proxmire

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it. — Aaron Carter

It really has lifted my spirits. It's intensified my faith, given me more hope. That's what music does for me. — Reba McEntire

Inspirational Quotes

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly - Paulo Coelho

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho

Lifting quote Strong people don't put others down... They lift the up.
Strong people don't put others down... They lift the up.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. — Helen Keller

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle

Cheer You Up Quotes

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. — Voltaire

Cry out loud once. Look at the mirror & shake it off. I've cried like that before & others will have times like that too. Cheer up. You're not alone. — Kim Jong-hyun

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. — Roald Dahl

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile. - Charlie Chaplin

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile. — Charlie Chaplin

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present. — Deepak Chopra

Try and fail,but don't fail to try. — John Quincy Adams

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible. - Deepak Chopra

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible. — Deepak Chopra

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit. — Tupac Shakur

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More Lifting Quotes

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.' — Hafez

The world is full of horrible things that will eventually get you and everything you care about. Laughter is a universal way to lift your head up and say: 'Not today, you bastards.' — Anthony Jeselnik

If I have to die tonight,if this weight is going to kill me tonight,so be it! I am dying where I wanna be — Kai Greene

Everybody looking at you crazy, What you gon' do? Lift up your head and keep moving, Or let the paranoia haunt you? — Kendrick Lamar

We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman. — T. D. Jakes

We are of such value to God that He came to live among us... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love. — St. Catherine of Siena

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. — Winston Churchill

God often goes to the gutter to find the recipient for His grace. He lifts him out, washes him and transforms him - making him into a child of God fit for His kingdom. That is God’s grace. — Chuck Smith

I see children as kites. You spend a lifetime trying to get them off the ground. You run with them until you're both breathless. They crash . . . you add a longer tail . . . you patch and comfort, adjust and teach. You watch them lifted by the wind and assure them that someday they'll fly. — Erma Bombeck

I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity. — Rumi

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long. — Mary Church Terrell

You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out! — T. D. Jakes

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity. — Oliver Sacks

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that a system that produces beggars needs to be repaved. We are called to be the Good Samaritan, but after you lift so many people out of the ditch you start to ask, maybe the whole road to Jericho needs to be repaved. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm. — Tertullian

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion. — Ricardo Montalban

If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being. — Jacob Lawrence

You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted. — J.R. Ward

There are days when we can bring before God...laughter of joy and gratitude. There will be other days when we can only muster a bitter, angry complaint. Be confident that God will accept whatever we lift up before him, and he will make it serve his purpose and our good. — Gardner C. Taylor

We must learn to live on the heavenly side and look at things from above. To contemplate all things as God sees them, as Christ beholds them, overcomes sin, defies Satan, dissolves perplexities, lifts us above trials, separates us from the world and conquers fear of death. — A. B. Simpson

Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life. — Charles R. Swindoll

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again. — Bikram Choudhury

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all. — Ban Ki-moon

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here — Maynard James Keenan

You were my strength when I was weak; you were my voice when I couldn't speak; you were my eyes when I couldn't see; you saw the best there was in me; lifted me up when I couldn't reach, you gave me faith cuz you believed. I'm everything I am because you loved me. — Celine Dion

If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Satan will be ready to help forward such thoughts as a fit medium to lift thee up , and slacken thy care in duty for the future. Such discoveries do indeed bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree and measure of it. The weak child may be, yea, is, oftener in the lap than the strong. — William Gurnall

At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over. — James Clear

My goal has always been to add value, not to be redundant, not to get in the way, but to do things that lift and move things forward in a very strategic and objective way so that there are real outcomes. — Michelle Obama

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child. — Paul Gauguin

Strong people don't put others down. they lift them up. — Michael Watson

The myth that women should lift light weights to prevent getting 'bulky' is perpetuated by men who fear women and women who fear work. — Layne Norton

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