spirit quotes

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

The totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship.

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his ‚divine service.‘

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Our body is dependant on Heaven and Heaven on the Spirit.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

The drawing teacher has this problem of communicating how to draw by osmosis and not by instruction, while the physics teacher has the problem of always teaching techniques, rather than the spirit, of how to go about solving physical problems.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

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.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‚black feminist‘ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish.