Uplifting Quotes

809 Uplifting quotes by 528 unique authors

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. — Samuel Johnson
But I'm English. We don't do uplifting. — Tony Judt
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
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
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.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. — Madeleine L'Engle
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
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
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. — Bruce Lee
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
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
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you… — Sophia Loren
No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but… — Demi Lovato
You change your life by changing your heart. — Max Lucado
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. — Horace Mann
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds… — Orison Swett Marden
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the… — Ian Mcewan
I learned the value of hard work by working hard. — Margaret Mead
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. — Thomas Merton
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or,… — Jim Morrison

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