Human Spirit Quotes - Page 9

• By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Positivity, Giving, Needs

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• The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Giving Up, Commitment

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• Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

  Paul Bowles

  Age, Tangible, Spirit

  Paul Bowles (1955). “The Spider's House”

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• Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Things In Life, Inspire, Humanity

  "Online Extra: A Talk with Oprah Winfrey". Interview with Michelle Conlin, www.bloomberg.com. November 29, 2004.

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• A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Betrayal, War, Moving

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Artist, Independence, Spirit

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• I believe in the power of the human spirit.

  Bob Harper

  Believe, Spirit, Humans

  FaceBook post by Bob Harper from Oct 30, 2011

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• I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called 'culture' - and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Strong, Art, Believe

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.1, Zondervan

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• I know the human spirit. I haven't found a wall that can be built that a determined human being can't get over, under or around.

  Chris Christie

  Wall, Spirit, Determined

  "Gov. Chris Christie discusses his presidential bid". "Fox News Sunday" Shannon Bream, www.foxnews.com. July 05, 2015.

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• Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.

  Fannie Hurst

  Light, Giving, Radiation

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• From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.

  Erica Jong

  Country, Falling In Love, Crazy

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• Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of world religions, I see religion as the winnower of the wisdom of the human race. Of course, not everything about these religions is wise. Their social patterns, for example - master-slave, caste, and gender relations - have been adopted from the mores of their time. But in their view of the nature of reality, there is nothing in either modernity or postmodernity that rivals them.

  Huston Smith

  Wise, Reality, People

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• The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

  Russell Baker

  Dirty, Government, Political

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• The anguish of death hangs over and leads the human spirit to wonder about the mysteries of existence, man's destiny, life, the world.

  Edgar Morin

  Destiny, Men, Life And Death

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• I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Agony, Sweat

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• We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.

  Hugh Jackman

  Stronger, And Love, Different

  "OSCARS Q&A: Hugh Jackman". Interview with Pete Hammond, deadline.com. December 29, 2012.

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• And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Good Life, Elude Us, Water

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• The heart of our problem is the selfishness in our heart.
  
  The human spirit soars with hope when lifted by an encouraging word.
  
  The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Struggle, Heart, Encouraging Words

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• Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things too.

  Richard Dawkins

  Spirit, Glory, Demeaning

  "Prince courts controversy as he places the nature of God above the god of science" by James Meek, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2000.

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• The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.

  Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

  Math, Honor, Spirit

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• The human spirit must transcend number and break through multiplicity, and God will break through him; and just as He

  Meister Eckhart

  Break Through, Numbers, Spirit

  Meister Eckhart (1987). “Meister Eckhart, Sermons & Treatises”, Element Books Limited

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• The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about his environment and the forces by which he is surrounded, gives life its meaning and purpose, and clothes it with final dignity.... And yet we know, deep in our hearts, that knowledge is not enough.... Unless we can anchor our knowledge to moral purposes, the ultimate result will be dust and ashes- dust and ashes that will bury the hopes and monuments of men beyond recovery.

  Raymond B. Fosdick

  Life, Heart, Recovery

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• I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general.

  Jude Law

  Years, People, Champion

  "Jude Law: 'I was a great champion of the human spirit. I lost that for a time'". Interview With Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.

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• The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

  Herbert Read

  Care, Spirit, Sin

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1936). “The Meaning of Art”

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• It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Drama, Adventure, Character

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