Uplifting Quotes
809 quotes by 528 authors
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I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter…
— Tom Hooper
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The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.
— Kin Hubbard
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No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken…
— William James
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Belief creates the actual fact.
— William James
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
— Samuel Johnson
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
— Samuel Johnson
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But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.
— Tony Judt
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts…
— Carl Jung
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and…
— Helen Keller
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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can…
— Ben Kingsley
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;…
— Dalai Lama
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If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you…
— Anne Lamott
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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
— Bruce Lee
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Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as…
— John A. Logan
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
— Vince Lombardi
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