Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."
Uplifting quotes
Uplifting
638 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it."
Marcus Aurelius
Philosopher, Emperor
"Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back."
Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
Deepak Chopra
Author, Speaker
"Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are."
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"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
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"Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free."
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"If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that."
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"A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you."
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"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
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"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."
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"Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now."
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"Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you."
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"Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star."
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"All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
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"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
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"Behind the cloud the sun is still shining."
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"Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great."
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"I want you to know, that you deserve the best. You're beautiful."
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"What you are thinking is what you are becoming."
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"Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future."
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"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."
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"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
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"If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers."
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"You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes."
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