Quotes about Upliftment
You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.
- Job 5:11
“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
- Psalm 12:5
But You, O LORD, be gracious to me and raise me up, that I may repay them.
- Psalm 41:10
The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.
- Pope John Paul II
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one can ever have lived without it.
- John Maxwell
If somebody buys what you offer, how will it make their lives better?
- Donald Miller
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
While we teach our daughters about self defense, we should teach the sons about being respectful as well. A society cannot function properly if only one gender is rising. It has to be in tandem. It cannot be unequal. There has to be balance for upliftment.
- Jennifer Winget
By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.
- Thomas a Kempis
Life as usual must go. It will be replaced by something far better.
- Dallas Willard
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
- Desmond Tutu