Human Spirit Quotes - Page 11

• Racing a marathon is a true and simple way to test the human spirit. Whether it goes perfectly or poorly you will certainly learn something about yourself and be a better person for having tackled the distance.

  Blake Russell

  Running, Distance, Simple

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• Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Spiritual, Honesty, Healthy

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.185, Pan Macmillan

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• I have concluded the evident existence of God, and that my existence depends entirely on God in all the moments of my life, that I do not think that the human spirit may know anything with greater evidence and certitude.

  Rene Descartes

  Philosophy, Thinking, May

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• The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Desire

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• It's about the power of design and the power of the human spirit. It's above paying anybody to do something stupid for money like reality television does - like ambushing people.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Stupid, Reality, People

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• One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human.

  Terry Pratchett

  Brave, Noble, Spirit

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• Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

  Robertson Davies

  Spirit, Clarity, Characteristics

  Robertson Davies (1996). “The Cunning Man”, Penguin Group USA

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• Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has no understanding, whoever does not have at least a dim inkling in which area of the human spirit this greatness might be situated: he is within his own sphere either without genius, or he has not educated himself up to the point of the classical attitude.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Attitude, Greatness, Understanding

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• It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

  Howard Zinn

  Men, Small Numbers, Humanity

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• My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds its greatness in its expression of the human spirit, and, to me, this can’t be reduced to a contest.

  Bennie Wallace

  Art, Greatness, Expression

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• A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they must shift their emphasis towards something to which they can be true; namely, certain wistful or restless moods of the human spirit, wherein it seeks to weave gossamer ladders of escape from the galling tyranny of time, space, and natural law.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Law, Space, Adults

  Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft (2004). “Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark”, p.14, Wildside Press LLC

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• If in any quest for magic, in any search for sorcery, witchery, legerdemain, first check the human spirit.

  Rod Serling

  Magic, Sorcery, Quests

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• A human spirit may find no insufficiency of food fit for it, even in the Custom House.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  House, May, Spirit

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.319, e-artnow

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• With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Writing, Thinking, Spirit

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• To me, art is the glorification of the human spirit.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Spirit, Glorification

  Helmut Friedel, Tina Dickey, Hans Hofmann, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München (1998). “Hans Hofmann: Wunder Des Rhythmus und Schönheit Des Raumes : [exhibition at the Städtische Galerie Im Lenbachaus in Munich, from 23 April to 29 June 1997, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, from 12 September to 2 November 1997 ]”, p.96, Hudson Hills

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• We are not here for the sake of possessions, or of power. Or of happiness, but we are here to transfigure the divine out of human spirit.

  Walther Rathenau

  Humanity, Sake, Spirit

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• The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Way Forward, Spirit, Abstract

  1912 'On the Question of Form', in Blaue Reiter Almanac.

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• This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

  Ken Kesey

  Strong, Cuckoos, World

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.33, Hamilton Books

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• The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit!

  John Pringle Nichol

  Adventure, Science, Spirit

  John Pringle Nichol (1848). “The planet Neptune: an exposition and history”, p.90

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• Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

  Lindsey Graham

  Wings, People, Giving

  "Estate Tax Debate". "PBS NewsHour" with Kwame Holman, www.pbs.org. June 8, 2000.

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• Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Love Is, Evil

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• Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, War, Ninety Nine

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• So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, Spirit, Action

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The White Company”, p.140, Booklassic

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• How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

  Wallace Stevens

  Literature, Spirit, Humans

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.249, Vintage

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• The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that. There will never be a time when the human spirit will not be able to better existing records.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Giving Up, Able

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