Quotes About Elevating

I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

There's nine times more to gain by elevating positive customers than by eliminating negative ones.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

The defeat revealed the downside of the new mode of presidential leadership: by elevating personality over party, it diminished the likelihood of a president being able to win himself a compliant Congress.11

Rapid-collage prevents any elevating movement toward a fixed goal. To 'be nowhere' is to let oneself be.