Quotes About Upliftment

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Hey, religious nuts! Please do not grow up. Just go up!

It would be a word of empowerment, imagine every word coming from your mouth with a true desire to offer help to people knowing they are themselves powerful but need upliftment sometimes.

Every single thing can change for the better, no matter however hard it is. Even a family in utter poverty can become prosperous in a couple of generations.

She had called Cynthia then to come out and speak the truth, and Cynthia had uplifted and encouraged her.

Everyone who plays this game wants to continue to improve.

While we strive to be like God, we're pretty apt to fail, and we let ourselves down. I think more so than [we let God down]. God knows that we are dust, and I don't think He's too uptight about it.

What matters when all is said and done is not who puts us down but who picks up.

How strange! Life gets easier when we get better.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

I think the great thing about humans in general is we're always improving things.

philosophy? It's this: Our job, regardless of our bodily circumstances, is to rise above what holds us down, and to help others do the same!

I'm about creating positive change in the communities that I come from.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

Education is the antidote to poverty.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Anytime you get an opportunity to better yourself and escape your surroundings you take advantage of it.

When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.

My favorite filmmaker is Frank Capra. He talked about the redemption of the human spirit - not the superhero, but the common man.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Having saved people from abject misery, we will now aim to make them positively happy. And having raised humanity above the beastly level of survival struggles, we will now aim to upgrade humans into gods, and turn Homo sapiens into Homo deus.

A better world is always waiting for a better you.

Heavy thoughts don't have to cloud your day. You have good choices for how to lift yourself out of them.