Uplifting Quotes

It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important. (Ian McEwan)
Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting. View quote
Vera Rubin
I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting. View quote
Howard Stern
Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life. View quote
Stefan Zweig
Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe. View quote
Mark Hopkins
The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you. View quote
Andre Rieu
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations. View quote
Adam Braun
While I'd like to make movies that are uplifting, there's always that part of you that goes, 'I want to play the evil guy because it's not me.' So anything that is not me is a challenge, and if I rise to the challenge, then I've kind of proved myself. View quote
Dean O'Gorman
Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature. View quote
Jack Miller
Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns. View quote
Kaskade
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting. (Michael Stipe)
The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies. View quote
Morgan Brittany
This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world. View quote
Roma Downey
Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something. View quote
Ralph Marston
Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow. View quote
Sheena Iyengar
I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood. View quote
Yaya DaCosta
With a few exceptions, Fellini's films have failure and despair running through them: Life continues, but I can't imagine 'Felliniesque' as an exclusively uplifting adjective. Fellini's best films are the ones that distill this essence -- the paradoxical quality of melancholic ecstasy, a surreal, bittersweet vitality -- to perfection. View quote
Damian Pettigrew
What good are laws without a religion? We need a religion so distant to that of Rome that we can never return to the religion of Rome. In this century we are furthermore convinced that religion must be based on morality and not morality on religion. Hence we require a reliigion that is faithful to morals, that is virtually their further development, their necessary consequence, and that, in uplifting the soul, can perpetually keep it on the acme of that precious freedom which is now its unique idol. View quote
Marquis de Sade
One of its [the First World War's] most certain results will be the partial destruction of the aristocratic classes everywhere in northern Europe ... This will tend to realize the standardization of type so dear to democratic ideals. If equality cannot be obtained by lengthening and uplifting the stunted of body and of mind, it can be at least realized by the destruction of the exalted of stature and of soul. View quote
Madison Grant
Moral: In uplifting, get underneath. View quote
George Ade
I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other. (Ben Kingsley)
Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party. View quote
Tiësto
I proclaim the inevitable advent of the universal republic. Not the transient backslidings, nor the darkness and the dread, nor the tragic difficulty of uplifting the world everywhere at once will prevent the fulfillment of international truth. View quote
Henri Barbusse
So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It's cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting. View quote
Nora Ephron
It was very competitive in the '60s. And everybody caught the bug, y'know? It was like a "competitive bug.” And, as far as I could see, everybody was turning everybody on. ... The Beatles were a part of that whole "competition” thing. Rubber Soul blew my mind. It really made me wanna record; it made me wanna cut. It sounds like a collection of songs that belong together, and it was an uplifting feeling. So I thought I'd make a collection of songs - called Pet Sounds - together. That's how I got that idea. ... I'm proud of it. I think it's a very everlasting album. I'm very proud of the love that went into it. A lot of love went into that album. And people pick up on that too, and they really like it 'cause they feel the love. View quote
Brian Wilson