There is merit without elevation, but there is no…

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…

— Samuel Johnson

Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as…

— Samuel Smiles

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

— Soren Kierkegaard

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved…

— William Kittredge

“I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration.”

— Petra Remes

The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was,…

— Mark Helprin

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Everyone cannot elevate or even revelate at the same time and/or season; an appointment to elevation can result from being specially chosen...like fruit that…

— Tracey Bond

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession…

— Joseph Pulitzer

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

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.

— Mark Twain

Fasting is not bodily hunger but bodily elevation and purity. It is not a body that hungers and longs for food, but a body…

— Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the…

— B. R. Ambedkar

There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we…

— Francois Fenelon