Spirited Quotes

• And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Hope, Humble, Men

  "Louis Farrakhan Discusses His Role in the Murder of Malcolm X". www.cnn.com. May 14, 2000.

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• The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

  Ovid

  Men, Fire, May

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• Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Light, Creative, Innovation

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• It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistake, Artist, Prudent

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mind, Contractions, Weariness

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

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• My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Private Albert Einstein". Book by Peter A. Bucky, 1992.

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• The great affair, the love affair with life,
  is to live as variously as possible,
  to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred,
  climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day.
  Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding,
  and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours,
  life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length.
  It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,
  but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Beautiful, Country

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• How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Hero, Long

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• I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Anime, Done, Film

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.

  Naomi Judd

  Spiritual, Fun

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• But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.

  John Thorn

  Baseball, Dream, Hero

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• These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

  Jane Russell

  Christian, Mean, Wings

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

  Shana Alexander

  Faith, Astrology, Matter

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

  Ovid

  Leadership, Running, Encouragement

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• I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

  Ronald Reagan

  Money, Cat, Politics

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

  Plato

  Strong, Noble, Clarity

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• Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!

  Saint Augustine

  Evil, Lazy, Taught

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• The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

  Albert Murray

  People, Creation, Strive

  Albert Murray, Roberta S. Maguire (1997). “Conversations with Albert Murray”, p.129, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.

  Kedar Joshi

  Heart, Eye, Men

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• Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Men, Rising Up

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• Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.

  Salman Rushdie

  Return, Absurd, Pointless

  "The Shelter of the World". www.newyorker.com. February 25, 2008.

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• I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Taken, Mean, Secret

  Michael Ondaatje (2010). “Divisadero”, p.134, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Food, Power, Men

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• Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

  Ernie Harwell

  Baseball, Men, Race

  Ernie Harwell (1986). “Tuned to Baseball”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.

  Alan Moore

  Mean, Cold, Mean Spirited

  Alan Moore (2008). “V for Vendetta”, p.6, DC

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