Self Upliftment Quotes & Sayings

The artists realise it will take time. It is an upliftment process. — Eddy Grant

When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that. — Susan Vreeland

We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all — Nelson Mandela

The masses will not vote for their own upliftment in a higher order of society. This has to be accomplished without their support and request, despite them and indeed against them. It is absurd to pivot your whole project, as does a conventional party, on the submission of change to the decision of those who so need to be changed. You might as well make the case for law and order conditional on the approval of the criminals. — Colin Jordan

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits. — Barry Manilow

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit. — Pope John Paul II

Committment is the key to upliftment. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

If you're true to the upliftment of people and the unity of people, raising the self-worth of people, then you live within your means. But the problem is that we're looking at the grass on the other side, saying, "That's greener. I want to be in the thug market, but I want to be a conscious rap artist." It doesn't work like that. — KRS-One

I live by grace, in the light of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

She needed a hot shower, a warm bed, and me. — Penelope Douglas

There is nothing better than music as a means for upliftment of the soul. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

Later the brothers had quarrelled, one of those family quarrels we all know with deeply entangled roots, impossible to cure because neither side speaks out clearly, each having much to hide. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa

When the Taliban had found the paintings, Tariq said, they'd taken offence at the birds' long bare legs. After they'd tied the cousin's feet and flogged his soles bloody, they had presented him with a choice: Either destroy the paintings or make the flamingos decent. So the cousin had picked up his brush and painted trousers on every last bird. "And there you have it, Islamic flamingos," - "But he'll have the last laugh, the cousin," Tariq said. " He painted those trousers with watercolour. When the Taliban are gone he'll just wash them off. — Khaled Hosseini

Your inner strength is your outer foundation — Allan Rufus

Please, please, please, I silently ask a God who should have stopped listening to me long ago. — Megan McCafferty

It would be a word of empowerment, imagine every word coming from your mouth with a true desire to offer help to people knowing they are themselves powerful but need upliftment sometimes. — Harshada Pathare

For the LORD your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath. — Philip Yancey

He was very good, it turned out, at outlining the flaws in the government as long as someone else was in charge of the government. — David Halberstam

The perks of a new government are not really appealing to me. Everybody would like to have a good job, a good salary ... but for me that is not the all of struggle. What is important is the continuation of the struggle ... the real problems of the country are not whether one is in Cabinet ... but what we do for social upliftment of the working masses of our country. — Chris Hani

There is blessedness, fulfillment, upliftment, grace and rest for every genuine member of this God's family. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

If you are faithful and diligent in your work, God will place you before kings — Sunday Adelaja

The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression. — George Will

Emperor, king, general, duke," he whispered to himself. "These are just labels. Climb up the family tree of any of them high enough and you'll find a commoner who dared to take a chance. — Ken Liu

These hands elate my life, choke me, broil my bosom, spank me, give fire to my words, my words, mother, my heart beats in my words. — Laura Gentile

The king should be the servant of his people, and seek to uplift them and their lives. — Aleksandra Layland

Judging by the deplorable state in which the garrison troops can often be found, alcohol is never in short supply. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for water. The island has only two tiny springs, so most drinking water has been collected during the rainy season and stored in cisterns for use in drier periods. — Anonymous

No nation can be elevated without Christ — Sunday Adelaja

Find courage to overcome the circumstance. — Lailah Gifty Akita