50 Elevated Quotes For Seeking Higher Views

By Clifton Sankofa

School Leader, Language Arts Expert & Master Quote Curator

Published December 20, 2022

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What is the meaning of elevated?

When we hear the word ‘elevated,’ many things can come to mind.

Some people think of beautiful landscape views from the top of a mountain.

Other people think about increasing their moral or intellectual insight.

Still, others may consider their career and promotions to higher levels of responsibility.

At its core, to be elevated means to place in a higher position.

There are all sorts of ways we can experience elevation.

Elevation gives us a higher vantage point.

When we elevate our thoughts and vision, we can see more.

Increasing our knowledge and exposure to new things helps us elevate our worldview and increase our ability to see more of what life offers.

Moral and intellectual elevation comes as a result of standing in our integrity.

However, there are many benefits to being elevated, especially when it comes to our health.

Here are some health benefits of being elevated:

Sleeping with an elevated head relieves sleep apnea and migraines.
Sleeping with our feet elevated improves circulation in our body.
Viewing landscapes from elevated views improves our health.

Stay elevated, keep going

Each of us has an evolutionary path to follow.

As we grow, we become more elevated.

Check out our awesome elevated quotes below and raise your vibration.

Short elevated quotes

These elevated quotes get straight to the point.

1. “Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” — Thomas Wolfe

2. “Our concerns aren’t always appropriate or morally elevated.” — Susan Minot

3. “I knew ‘Crenshaw’ had elevated me and distinguished me.” — Nipsey Hussle

4. “Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.” — Robin Morgan

5. “American greatness was elevated significantly after Sputnik.” — Buzz Aldrin

6. “I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep.” — Hrithik Roshan

7. “These people have elevated audacity to symphonic and operatic levels.” — Vincent Bugliosi

8. “It was implanted in me that I came from a different class – an elevated class.” — Spike Milligan

9. “By rationing in-person meetings, their stature is elevated to that of a rare treat.” — Jason Fried

10. “The perception of you can be elevated to such a status that it’s not you anymore.” — Chris Ofili

Insightful elevated quotes

Here are some interesting elevated quotes to enjoy.

11. “Martyrs do not underrate the body; they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this, they are at one with their antagonists.” — Franz Kafka

12. “A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.” — Ferdinand Porsche

13. “The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.” — A. R. Rahman

14. “From the very first, it has been the educated and intelligent of the Negro people that have led and elevated the mass.” — W. E. B. Du Bois

15. “As a culture, I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud; the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.” — Shelley Berman

16. “The Jewish experience wasn’t just one minority experience among many, but a signal and elevated case.” — Ross Douthat

17. “It is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming – a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.” — Victor Hugo

18. “I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.” — Henry David Thoreau

19. “If you are elevated, there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.” — Alan Clark

20. “While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied – and to some extent overshadowed – by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.” — John Podhoretz

Elevated quotes and sayings

These elevated quotes remind us why it is essential to keep rising.

21. “I’m not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated.” — Imogen Poots

22. “Man’s respect for the imponderables varies according to his mental constitution and environment. Through certain modes of thought and training, it can be elevated tremendously, yet there is always a limit.” — H. P. Lovecraft

23. “When you trust and have elevated personnel in each department, then the sky really is the limit.” — Lily Collins

24. “There is no god. I am an atheist. It is up to us to become God. We need to be elevated to become saints.” — Bruno Dumont

25. “My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation – often elevated loneliness – to community.” — Chuck Palahniuk

26. “When one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.” — Ashwin Sanghi

27. “When I finish a book and want to immediately find another by the same author and no other, that author is elevated to my favorite.” — Amy Tan

28. “My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company. My father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star.” — Brian J. White

29. “A man who is without capital, and who, by prohibitions upon banking, is practically forbidden to hire any, is in a condition elevated but one degree above that of a chattel slave.” — Lysander Spooner

30. “I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it’s always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.” — Nazanin Boniadi

Elevated thought quotes

We can all benefit from elevating how we think.

31. “Pro athletes, how they go through the world is so elevated. The bubble they’re in is one of entitlement. And that starts young. By the time they’re in college, they’ve had it a lot of their life.” — Richard Linklater

32. “If you’re a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom.” — Donna Brazile

33. “So-called’ complex carbs’ may actually represent a more significant threat to health than simple sugar in that they may not only raise blood sugar but keep it elevated for a more prolonged period of time.” — David Perlmutter

34. “I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situational or political or social or other kind of elevated drama, and I tend to find that those things combust.” — Edward Zwick

35. “Many foolish people believe that nuclear war cannot happen because there can be no winner. However, the American war planners, who elevated U.S. nuclear weapons from a retaliatory role to a pre-emptive first strike function, obviously do not agree that nuclear war cannot be won.” — Paul Craig Roberts

36. “The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it’s now more commonly called, is that it’s about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one’s a depressive. The point is, one’s a manic-depressive.” — Stephen Fry

37. “We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads, and in subways.” — Nikola Tesla

38. “There is no history of mankind. There are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.” — Karl Popper

39. “In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Black Lives Matter protesters have elevated the idea of inequity in policing as it relates to minority communities.” — Charles M. Blow

40. “Reducing dietary salt is not only important for those who already have elevated blood pressure – limiting added salt is essential for all of us to remain in good health.” — Joel Fuhrman

Elevated leadership quotes

These quotes celebrate those who have found success via leadership elevation.

41. “We love the ability of the people to influence the actions of decision-makers, of lawmakers and presidents to be removed from or elevated to office by the will of voters, and of the community to connect amongst diverse populations through the ballot box.” — Charles B. Rangel

42. “‘Alien’ is a C film elevated to an A film, honestly, by it being well done and a great monster.” — Ridley Scott

43. “Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.” — Orison Swett Marden

44. “The ‘Bourne’ films totally reimagined and elevated the action genre.” — Riz Ahmed

45. “If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated?” — Henry David Thoreau

46. “Within less than an hour of arriving in Singapore, it was clear we had arrived in a country where eating has been elevated to the status of a national pastime.” — Fiona Bruce

47. “The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.” — Jakob Bohme

48. “I think that when you die, you continue to progress. You continue to grow in kind of an elevated state, but I don’t think you sit there and wallow around and play the harp.” — Mike Leach

49. “I turned to the novel, an artistic form which had in former days been neglected and had thus acquired a bad reputation, but which during the nineteenth century had developed and elevated itself to the ranks occupied by drama and the ancient epic.” — Henrik Pontoppidan

50. “I’ll say this, the mayoral position – because of COVID, because of the 24-hour news cycle, because of social media – it’s been elevated.” — Francis X. Suarez