Spirit Quotes - page 5

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages. (George Washington)
A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything. View quote
George Washington
It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building. View quote
Louis Sullivan
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome. View quote
Louis Sullivan
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one. View quote
Tallulah Bankhead
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. View quote
Abbie Hoffman
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit by which Nature herself is animated. View quote
Auguste Rodin
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. View quote
Earl Warren
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. View quote
Patrick Henry
Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven. (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))
Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day. View quote
Charles Evans Hughes
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general. View quote
David Lee Roth
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,Exhilarate the spirit, and restoreThe tone of languid nature. View quote
William Cowper
It is enough to have been created, to have embodied for a moment the infinite and tumultuously creative spirit. It is infinitely more than enough to have been used, to have been the rough sketch for some perfected creation. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old. View quote
James A. Garfield
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. View quote
Charles Kingsley
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. ... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor. View quote
George William Russell
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . . . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . . . . . . Sabbath-less Satan! (Charles Lamb)
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. View quote
Francis Bacon
Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit? View quote
Benny Hinn
God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh. View quote
Benny Hinn
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter? View quote
Wole Soyinka