Spirit Quotes - page 3

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit. (Oprah Winfrey)
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. View quote
Mark Twain
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. View quote
C. S. Lewis
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. View quote
William Winwood Reade
I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. (Ronald Reagan)
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit. View quote
Andrei Sakharov
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God? You are not your own. View quote
Paul
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two. View quote
Tadao Ando
I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today. View quote
Giorgos Seferis
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things. View quote
Giambattista Vico
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. View quote
Liu Xiaobo
you will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. View quote
Henry Drummond
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. View quote
Karl Menninger
Life is the spirit incarnate in time. (Buckminster Fuller)
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. View quote
José Martí
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves we are the same. View quote
John Denver
Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit. View quote
John Updike