Quotes with spirit

Quotes 261 till 280 of 344.

  • Bruce Lee The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.
    Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Henrik Ibsen The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • George Santayana The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Vince Lombardi The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Sholem Asch The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers for ever!
    Sholem Asch
    Polish-Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist (0 - 1957)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Giambattista Vico 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.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Boris Johnson The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Sir Humphry Davy The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.
    Sir Humphry Davy
    British chemist and inventor
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  • Alan K. Simpson The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
    Alan K. Simpson
    American politician (1931 - )
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  • Bethany Kennedy Scanlon The word of God is God, and therefore has to be revealed to you by God. When God's Holy Spirit reveals to you the meaning of His word, then you will recognize the truth of His word.
    Born of the Spirit
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  • Adam Clarke The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Jacques Bossuet The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
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  • Hubert Humphrey There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Napoleon 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.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Thomas Wolfe There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Anna Katharine Green There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
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  • Ansel Adams There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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