Spirit Quotes - page 2

The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once. (Johann Kaspar Lavater)
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. View quote
Herbert Spencer
I look at an ant and see myself: a native South African, endowed with a strength much greater than my size, so I might cope with the weight of racism that crushes my spirit. View quote
Miriam Makeba
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory. View quote
George C. Marshall
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction. View quote
Gabriel Marcel
Just as my fingers on these keys make music, so the self-same sounds on my spirit make a music too. View quote
Wallace Stevens
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. View quote
Gore Vidal
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Your spirit is the true shield. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. (Elie Wiesel)
True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. View quote
William Penn
What will not woman, gentle woman dare, When strong affection stirs her spirit up? View quote
Robert Southey
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. View quote
Coretta Scott King
Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
The village is a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is Number Six and will live there happily as Number Six for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break. View quote
Patrick McGoohan
Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business. View quote
Leo Burnett
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit. View quote
Bill Hicks
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. View quote
Václav Havel
What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth. View quote
Benny Hinn
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. (John Muir)
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. View quote
John Steinbeck
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. View quote
Boris Pasternak
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself. View quote
Robertson Davies