Human Spirit Quotes - Page 6

• We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Thinking, Training

  Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.142, The History Press

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Philosophical, Thinking

  6 Copy quote

• We surely stand at the threshold of a great adventure of the human spiritó a new synthesis of knowledge, a potential integration of art and science, a deeper grasp of human psychology, a deepening of the symbolic representations of our existence and feelings as given in religion and culture, the formation of an international order based on cooperation and nonviolent competition. It seems not too much to hope for these things.

  Heinz Pagels

  Art, Adventure, Order

  8 Copy quote

• Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to his own. Only in suprahuman demands which can hardly be fulfilled do human beings and peoples feel their true and sacred measure.

  Stefan Zweig

  Inspirational, Individual Strength, Giving

  25 Copy quote

• Everyone talks about freedom. All around the world different people, different races, different countries are fighting for freedom. But what is freedom? In America we speak of living in a free country. But are we really free? Are we free to be who we really are? The answer is no, we are not free. True freedom has to do with the human spirit-it is freedom to be who we really are. Who stops us from being free? We blame the government, we blame the weather, we blame our parents, we blame religion, we blame God. Who really stops us from being free? We stop ourselves.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Country, Freedom, Fighting

  8 Copy quote

• Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me.

  Kristin Bauer van Straten

  Art, Two, Triumph

  4 Copy quote

• The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of a sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Moral Fiber, Welfare Programs

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's natural to sit down but the human spirit within us can make us get up.

  Tony Robbins

  Spirit, Natural, Get Up

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

  Robert Genn

  Real, Creativity, Imagination

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.64, Studio Beckett Publications

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Passion, Important

  Gertrude Stein, Brenda Wineapple (2002). “Three Lives”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Opportunity, Long, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Government, People

  "A MAN TRUE TO HIS WORD".

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Country, Mind, Culture

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1954). “Speeches”

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want people to see the beauty of that condition through the eyes of the characters. In doing that, they can allow people who have the condition to be more accepting of it, and to be open about it. That would be a contribution to the people who have it, and considering that 38% of the Pulitzer Prize winning poets are Bipolar, to think about how much these individuals have contributed to the human spirit.

  Paul Dalio

  Character, Eye, Winning

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function.

  Wole Soyinka

  Reading, Mean, Creativity

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Thinking, Lust

  Christopher Morley (1933). “Christopher Morley's omnibus: an excursion among the books of Christopher Morley”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, Community, Spirit

  4 Copy quote

• Boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense, is greater than the entire universe. Boredom is an expression of a profound despair at not finding anything that can satisfy the soul's boundless needs.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Expression, Profound, Boredom

  54 Copy quote

• We, this nation of ours, could be the richest nation in the world. We could be the freest nation in the world - but only if the arts are alive and flourishing can we experience the true meaning of our freedom, and know the full glory of the human spirit.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Art, Alive, World

  Nixon, Richard M. (1972). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1971”, p.676, Best Books on

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Struggle, Mind, Progress

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• People must belong to a tribe; they yearn to have a purpose larger than themselves. We are obligated by the deepest drives of the human spirit to make ourselves more than animated dust, and we must have a story to tell about where we came from, and why we are here.

  E. O. Wilson

  Dust, People, Purpose

  "Consilience: Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson, www.cnn.com. 1998.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe the human spirit is indomitable.

  Monty Oum

  Believe, Spirit, Humans

  245 Copy quote

• Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.

  Janet Morris

  Life, Fighting, Spirit

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.29, Paradise Publishing

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien - but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most - from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin’s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams.

  Barack Obama

  Condolences, Voice, Doctors

  Statement by the President on the Passing of Robin Williams, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 11, 2014.

  129 Copy quote

  Show source