Human Spirit Quotes

325 quotes by 280 authors

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the… — Ansel Adams
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. — Ansel Adams
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. — Edward Abbey
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. — William Ellery Channing
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations. — George Nelson
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something… — Aberjhani
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
How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend? — Wallace Stevens
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… — Roger Bannister
Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about… — Hizkias Assefa
The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the bounty of the… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone,… — Henry Beston
To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found 'in spirit and truth.' It… — Richard J. Foster
What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker.… — John W. Gardner
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of… — Jimmy Carter
The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence… — Ravi Zacharias

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