Spirit Quotes

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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

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It takes a long time to become young.

- Pablo Picasso

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.

- Ben Stein

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

- Leonardo Da Vinci

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge

- Voltaire

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

- Helen Keller

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

- Alex Noble

Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you`ll live as you`ve never lived before.

- Erich Fromm

Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.

- General George Catlett Marshall

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?

- Gregory Clark

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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 Bonaparte

The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.

- Senator John Kerry

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.

- Stephen R. Covey

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.

- Sue Patton Thoele