Quotes About Uplifting

In a way, I felt like I was carrying everyone with me as I traveled. Bur they were't baggage; they were more like buoys, lifting me up and nudging me along.

Books were mysterious, frightening, thrilling, disturbing, uplifting, nurturing, endlessly available and always accommodating.

I've noticed that things aren't bad all the time. So I've tried to write songs that people will want to hear when they're getting off work rather than something that's going to bring them down.

Kurt smiled a shy smile. You're just trying to cheer me up, he said. Course I am, Andy said. You deserve to be full of cheer.

The secret of his success? "I will speak ill of no man," he said, ". . and speak all the good I know of everybody.

position,—for the Negro to realize more deeply than he does at present the need of uplifting the masses of his people, for the white people to realize more vividly than they have yet done the deadening and disastrous effect of a color-prejudice that classes Phillis Wheatley

Some people are so much sunlight to the square inch. I am still bathing in the cheer he radiated.

Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with. Your presence will make others feel calm and assured.

I think each of us who deals in any way with things which are creative and things which are going to be read or looked at or heard by the public, needs always to test himself by the eighth verse in the fourth chapter of Philippians: 'Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

you will never find a rainbow if you are looking down

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us every time, no matter how many times we've fallen before. I hope you will remember that the next time you fail...Remembering that is the most important work as parents we can possibly do.

Setting aside her own disappointment, Abigail tried to lift her son's spirits: "These are the times in which a genius would wish to live," she told him. "It is not in the still calm life . . . that great characters are formed. . . . When a mind is raised and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

I wanted to do something inspirational for my children.

Choose people who will lift you up. —Michelle Obama

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be. —Martha Washington I can't promise I'll try, but I'll try to try. —Bart Simpson If I fall I just get back up and keep going. —Lindsey Vonn Choose people who will lift you up. —Michelle Obama

sic]Keep looking up, Mama used to tell me. There's nothing on the ground but your feet.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can.

I've been heavy my whole life. I've been up and down, and I can tell you that down is much better.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I think for me, the thing that gets me in the right mindset is just watching something funny, something light, something that makes me feel good. Regardless of what it is - when you feel good, when you feel upbeat, creativity flows!

I try to have all my songs relatable for my daughter in a fun and upbeat way that has a meaning.

I've always been reasonably upbeat about most things.

If I'm going to release anything into the world, I want it to have a positive message. So I think that 'Sit Still, Look Pretty' and 'Hide Away' were two upbeat pieces, and their messages really uplift me the most.