Quotes with spirit

Quotes 281 till 300 of 344.

  • Pat Riley There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Peter Ackroyd There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Walt Whitman There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body really too unbearable. So it's almost as if you were talking to the soul itself. And a soul's not properly responsible.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Lord George Byron There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bobby Sands They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.
    Bobby Sands
    Irish activist and IRA member (1954 - 1981)
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  • Benjamin Harrison This Government has found occasion to express, in a friendly spirit, but with much earnestness, to the Government of the Czar, its serious concern because of the harsh measures now being enforced against the Hebrews in Russia.
    Public papers and addresses of Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third President of the United States, March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Ezra Taft Benson This latter day work is spiritual. It takes spirituality to comprehend it, to love it, to discern it. Therefore, seek the spirit in all you do. Keep it with you continually. That is our challenge.
    Ezra Taft Benson
    American farmer, government official, and religious leader (1985 - 1994)
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  • Bruce Lipton Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Bainbridge Colby Thus, only in a hopeful and confident temper, in a proud and constructive spirit, will we rescue the present and safeguard the future of our beloved country.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Middleton Times have changed since George Herbert... but the principle and spirit in which he ministered as a priest remains an inspiration and model for all priests.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Carlos Castaneda To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Stephen Hawking To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
    The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence Krauss (2007 , Hawking's voorwoord
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • George Santayana To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but not hurried.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • William Penn True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Aldous Huxley Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Andrew Jackson Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that... the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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