Quotes about Spirit, page 2

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

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about spirit

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.

Quote by William Falconer about spirit

There's a spirit in Scotland which is rather sad because there's 20 million Scots in America, and possibly 25 to 30 percent of the Presidents of the United States are descended from Scots.

Quote by Sean Connery about spirit

It is remarkable that an entire people is imbued with a spirit of gentleness.

Quote by Richard Gere about spirit

There's no sanitation and no running water, but the spirit of the people, their enthusiasm, their joy-the thing I carried away with me was a sense of human contact.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about spirit

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Quote by William Godwin about spirit

One theory I believe is that when people die the spirit flies from them and fragments, and goes into people who are just coming into being. I believe I got hit with a lot of fragments from various people, that's my first theory.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about spirit

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

Quote by John Fischer about spirit

Why you always shout cut just when the spirit's on me?

Quote by Mahalia Jackson about spirit

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.

Quote by Don Johnson about spirit

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Quote by Franz Kafka about spirit

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

Quote by Franz Kafka about spirit

To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.

Quote by Rudolf Otto about spirit

Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about spirit

Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.

Quote by Paracelsus about spirit

We're very aware of not losing the spirit of the early Wallace and Gromit films.

Quote by Nick Park about spirit

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it...

Quote by Gilbert Parker about spirit

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about spirit

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

Quote by Walter Pater about spirit

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.

Quote by George S. Patton about spirit