Quotes on Uplifting

Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment but nothing is quite as splendidly uplifting to the heart as the defeat of a human being who battles against the invincible superiority of fate. This is always the most grandiose of all tragedies, one sometimes created by a dramatist but created thousands of times by life.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

Give light, and people will find the way...

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as? Has a man in the history of men ever been asked if he was going to be pigeonholed because he wrote two consecutive books with male leads?

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

Live everyday as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right.

I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.