Quotes about Upliftment

You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.

If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.

Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?'

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

In a large degree it has been the pennies, the nickels, and the dimes which have come from the Sunday-schools, the Christian Endeavour societies, and the missionary societies, as well as from the church proper, that have helped to elevate the Negro at so rapid a rate.

A second reason is that, conversely, it is morally necessary for the lowly to be lifted up and the underlings exalted.

She understood that she must not write merely to win fame for herself or even for the higher motive of pure pleasure in her work. She must aim, however humbly, to help her readers to higher planes of thought and endeavor. Then and only then would it be worth while.

Never look down on people unless you are helping them up.

Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.

Raise your thoughts. Ennoble your desires. Better your actions. Elevate your life.

Do not give way to lowness while you are young. Rise up on the strength of God and resolve to conquer.

Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.