Lift Quotes

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. View quote
Sydney Smith
When thou seest an Eagle, thou seest a portion of Genius; lift up thy head. View quote
William Blake
Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. View quote
Sylvia Plath
Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. it ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages. View quote
Sam Houston
For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands. View quote
Christina Rossetti
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. View quote
Booker T. Washington
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. View quote
Winston Churchill
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. (Richard Bach)
The distance between number one and number two is always a constant. If you want to improve the organization, you have to improve yourself and the organization gets pulled up with you. That is a big lesson. I cannot just expect the organization to improve if I don't improve myself and lift the organization, because that distance is a constant. View quote
Indra Nooyi
God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve. View quote
Jerry Falwell
Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery. View quote
William Butler Yeats
This child is not mine as the first was I cannot sing it to rest I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast. Yet it lies in my little one's cradle, And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she 's gone to Transfigures its golden hair. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift. View quote
William Wordsworth
Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. View quote
Erma Bombeck
What could be more fascinating than discovering life that had evolved entirely independently of life here on Earth? Many people would also find it heartening to learn that we are not entirely alone in this vast cold cosmos. But I hope that our Mars probes will discover nothing. It would be good news if we find Mars to be completely sterile. Dead rocks and lifeless sands would lift my spirit. View quote
Nick Bostrom
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. View quote
Henry Ford
And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months. (Brandon Routh)
I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift. View quote
Max Cannon
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse. View quote
Howard Zinn
The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise. View quote
James P. Cannon
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels. View quote
Luigi Pirandello