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Elevate those guns a little lower. -- Andrew Jackson
Elevate your thinking and you'll levitate to greater levels -- Constance Chuks Friday
Elevate your inside game. A negative attitude is below the horizon...a place for lonesome hearts. -- T.F. Hodge
Get passed the low hanging fruit. Anybody can grab that! Elevate your thought process and your mind and be creative. -- Eric Thomas
Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalitarian state higher than the throne of the Most High.But there are still people whose moral superiority defeats your own." -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Have a sense of piety ever on your mind, and be ever mindful that this is subject to no change, but will last you as long as life and support you in death. Elevate your soul by prayer and by contemplation without mystical enthusiasm. -- James Boswell
Hip-hop is supposed to help you elevate, or go higher. -- Common
Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. -- Denis Diderot
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. -- Washington Irving
Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall. -- Eddie Vedder
The most successful families embrace and elevate their family history, particularly their failures, setbacks and other missteps. -- Bruce Feiler
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. -- Henry David Thoreau
The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering. -- Patch Adams
Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time. -- Michael Douglas
The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character. -- Dorothea Dix
We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism. -- George W. Romney
Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness. -- Saul Williams
As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection. -- Ellen G. White
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind. -- Marina Abramovic
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another? -- Ezra Taft Benson
Working moms elevate themselves above stay-at-home moms, and stay-at-home moms try to put down working moms. It's a war in which both sides are trying to put the other one down. -- Leslie Morgan Steiner
I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate. -- Talib Kweli
I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you. -- Mary J. Blige
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. -- Margaret Fuller
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
We believe that business is good because it creates value. It is ethical because it is based on voluntary exchange; it is noble because it can elevate our existence, and it is heroic because it lifts people out of poverty and creates prosperity. -- John Mackey
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm more than comfortable just sitting back and scoring 21, 22 points or whatever and getting 10, 11 assists whatever the case might be. More than comfortable with that. It's just a matter of the pieces that you have around you and what you can do to elevate everybody else. -- Kobe Bryant
Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild. -- Cameron Sinclair
We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change. -- Ben Carson
The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions. -- Max Weber
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary. -- Edgar Allan Poe
I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk. -- Larry David
Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary. -- Samuel Mockbee
Music can elevate man to new heights. Especially elevator music. -- Jarod Kintz
We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves. -- Todd Skinner
You can elevate yourself to higher self by devotion to God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When you focus on your greatness you elevate everyone around you. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience. -- Mike Royko
Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once! -- Robert Browning
Propaganda does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve . -- Jacques Ellul
As we each express our natural genius, we all elevate our world. -- Robin Sharma
What is the purpose of life? To elevate all, big or small. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Don't kill the game with your 'funk', elevate it with your humility. -- T.F. Hodge
You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system. -- W. Edwards Deming
Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior. -- Albert Pujols
Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential... by reacting without reflecting. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine. -- John Piper
Stairs elevate you; ethics elevates you; goodness elevates you; awareness elevates you; wisdom elevates you. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models -- Epictetus
The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it. -- Kool Moe Dee
Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul. -- Dean Koontz
The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy. -- Jane McGonigal
Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger. -- Philippos Syrigos
When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them. -- Mariella Frostrup
Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing. -- Steve Martin
No people ever rise higher, as a people, than the point to which they elevate their women. -- Isabella Thoburn
Be the inner journeys, be the outer travels, all trips elevate man, all voyages lift him up! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity. -- John Donne
For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence. -- Gabriel Faure
The greatest formula that can liberate, cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name, the Name of Rama. -- Sathya Sai Baba
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Therefore, wheat products elevate blood sugar levels more than virtually any other carbohydrate, from beans to candy bars. -- William Davis
A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Hurry, believers of love, hurry. Share a dance and elevate your bond to a place where only spirits embrace. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
Bob Beaudine challenges you to think differently. His unique approach to life and business has helped elevate many careers. -- Roger Goodell
When we liberate the economic potential of women, we elevate the economic performance of communities, nations, and the world. -- Hillary Clinton
Coveting, pouting, or tearing others down does not elevate your standing, nor does demeaning someone else improve your self-image. -- Jeffrey R. Holland
The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue. -- Francois Guizot
Telling the truth to yourself and someone you can trust are great ways to help elevate your whole emotional quality. -- Jewel
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself. -- Alexander Walker
Life is a struggle to elevate ourselves from nobody to somebody, not ever knowing the secret beauties of being nobody! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart. -- Timothy Keller
If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders. -- Geraldine Laybourne
Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate. -- Horace Greeley
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force. -- Oscar Wilde
I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. -- Henry David Thoreau
There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work. -- Janet Malcolm
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. -- Jerome K. Jerome
That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting. -- Giorgio Armani
... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself. -- Tennessee Celeste Claflin
We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there. -- Will Rogers
Music has a very powerful and wonderful influence in establishing feelings and moods that can lift and elevate your thoughts and your actions. -- Ardeth Kapp
Happy Tuesday! Stay in the LIGHT. Hold onto positive things that elevate your spirit & be with positive people who make your life dance ! -- Tracey Edmonds
With their virtues they want to scratch out the eyes of their enemies; and they elevate themselves only that they may lower others. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day. -- Bill Watterson
You can cease to be influenced by people who tease you... Just neglect their helps and elevate your steps... You can do it! -- Israelmore Ayivor
My vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one mind, one heart, one life, one spirit at a time. They are married. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman. -- Elizabeth Lesser
Tis immortality, 'tis that alone, Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, The soul can comfort, elevate, and fill. That only, and that amply this performs. -- Edward Young
I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be better, to elevate my game. -- Julie Ann Emery
The more we invest in our spirituality, the more consistently we can elevate our consciousness and connect to the spiritual source of everything good. -- Yehuda Berg
The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material. -- Holt McCallany
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute. -- Quintilian
We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior. -- Timothy Keller
Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind? -- Robert Green Ingersoll
If you want to lower the significance of Russia in the world, you actually just want to elevate your own country. That is a mistake. -- Vladimir Putin
Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art. -- Wesley Snipes
Meet hatred with hatred and you degrade yourself. Meet hatred with love and you not only elevate yourself but also the person who bears you hatred. -- Ralph Waldo Trine
It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child. -- Peter J. Carroll
The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life. -- Barry Lopez
There is more of power to sanctify, elevate, strengthen, and cheer in the word Jesus (Jehovah-Saviour) than in all the utterances of man since the world began. -- Charles Hodge
We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack -- John Ashcroft
The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities. -- Daniel Clowes
We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack. -- John Ashcroft
Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive. -- Albert Einstein
Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side. -- Bernie Siegel
It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the mantra of music, make them into a release. -- Michael Gira
While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
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To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words. -- Rob Bell
[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation... -- Nikolai Gogol
I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate. -- Talib Kweli
Working moms elevate themselves above stay-at-home moms, and stay-at-home moms try to put down working moms. It's a war in which both sides are trying to put the other one down." -- Leslie Morgan Steiner
When we bring the filmmaker, we bring somebody to help us elevate the material with those things, to help us do something different with all of those resources at their disposal. -- Kevin Feige
Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission. -- Ruth Bernhard

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