Spirits Quotes

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt)
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. View quote
William Hazlitt
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. View quote
E. E. Cummings
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. View quote
William Cobbett
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. View quote
George Santayana
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. View quote
Douglas Adams
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
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. (Honoré de Balzac)
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Angels never attack, as infernal spirits do. Angels only ward off and defend. View quote
Emanuel Swedenborg
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. View quote
Hannah More
An apothecary should never be out of spirits. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure. View quote
William Wordsworth
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. View quote
William Wordsworth
Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them. View quote
Hayao Miyazaki
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. View quote
Gilbert Parker
Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events. And in today already walks tomorrow. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I mean, if cans can be recycled, why not spirits? (Marla Gibbs)
Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them. View quote
Barbara Deming
After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits. View quote
Catherine Helen Spence
A true community consists of individuals - not mere species members, not couples - respecting each others individuality and privacy while at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally - free spirits in free relation to each other - and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of "society" is the family; "hippies" say the tribe; noone says the individual. View quote
Valerie Solanas
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse. View quote
Howard Zinn