Lift Quotes

God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.

~ Criss Jami

If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to understand the power of an ordinary human being to perform the seemingly impossible in the life of another human being. And how can that experience do anything less than drive me to try and make the world smile.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We must lift our hands to God in prayer, crying out to Him to help us fulfill what He has called us for, to fulfill His will

~ Sunday Adelaja

This time is very important in your life because God wants to lift this generation from failures, poverty, and unbelief

~ Sunday Adelaja

Usually, when I dream of flying I am simply flapping my arms and somehow I lift off and glide through the sky. Last night was different. I missed you so much and my yearning was so powerful that I sprouted wings like a phoenix and soared to reach you. And now I finally understand: if you see lovers on a roof, do not worry. Surely, love has metamorphosed them.

~ Kamand Kojouri

There are three types of people out there; those who lean, those who lift, and those who lead. People who lean immobilize you; stay away from them. People who lift inspire you; keep them near. People who lead positively influence you; seek them out.

~ Farshad Asl

Some men’s chests are more buttlike than some women’s butts.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Snow cleaning of the world's largest telescope mirrors was an impressive sight. The optics technicians would climb into a huge telescopic boom lift and spray immense clouds of cold carbon dioxide snow and gas onto the ten meter diameter mirrors high above the floor indoors. It would cause some of the accumulated dirt to magically fall off, leaving it less dirty.

~ Steven Magee

Build a solid courage behind what you believe you can do. Your dreams may drift and fall, but when your courage is strong and still, you can’t shift; you’ll lift your dreams again!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

~ Tim Fargo

The fame is birthed through the opposition. The success through the dynamism of fighting the despair. No fight, No lift!

~ Paul Gitwaza

Opportunities loiter in every corner. Everyone may see them, but it’s only great leaders that stop by to give them lifts!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Lift up the weak; inspire the ignorant... Rescue the failures; encourage the deprived! Live to give... Don't only hustle for survival. Go, and settle for revival!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Humble yourself before the Lord and he will lift you high. People who are gentle, humble and able always have a great ending no matter how small and where obscured they have started!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Information had become a critical tool that you can use to raise your bar across every barrier towards excellence. Deny this fact and maintain your bar wherever it was without even a millimeter lift.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls….

~ James A. Murphy

Stealing regular stuff was no fun. She wanted a real challenge. Over the last two years, she'd picked the most difficult places to enter. Then she'd snuck in.And eaten their dinners.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Dip your fingers n the spring stream or lift your face to the summer rains. Listen for me in the winter wind I'll come back for you.

~ Evangeline Denmark

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

~ Rupert Murdoch

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

~ Henry Van Dyke

So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

~ Sally Ride

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

~ Luigi Pirandello

Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

~ Stephen Hawking

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

~ Vint Cerf

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

~ Erma Bombeck

If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.

~ Canelo Alvarez

In the morning, I always use a cube of ice on my face - it gives me a natural lift.

~ Irina Shayk

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

~ Jon Corzine

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

~ William Pennington

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.

~ Charles De Gaulle

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

~ Alexei Sayle

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

~ Vivienne Westwood

My purpose: to lift your spirit and to motivate you.

~ Mavis Staples

Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The hangover comes the day after.

~ Joyce Brothers

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

~ Christine Gregoire

A smile is like an instant facelift and an instant mood lift.

~ Christie Brinkley

If what I have to do is share a sandwich to lift someone's spirits, put a smile on their face - the worst thing that happens is I go broke!

~ Jose Andres

I don't lift weights. I do fitness exercises to stay strong.

~ Chad Le Clos

The only weights I lift are my dogs.

~ Olivia Newton-John

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

~ Victor Hugo