Best Human Spirit Sayings

325 Human Spirit quotes by 271 unique authors

Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too… — Dale Carnegie
Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a… — Roger Bannister
A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit. — Cecil B. DeMille
No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought… — Charles Stanley
It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on… — Geneen Roth
Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth. — Jacqueline Novogratz
And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if… — Barry McGuire
Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. — Unknown Author
When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual… — Caroline Myss
Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit. — Unknown Author
Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit. — William Shirley
The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle. — David Baldacci
Art is the highest expression of the human spirit. — Joyce Carol Oates
Music is a manifestation of the human spirit, similar to language. Its greatest practitioners have conveyed to mankind things not possible to say in any… — Zoltan Kodaly
A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the most potent symbols… — Edward Sapir
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit. — John D. MacDonald
Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that… — Duane Elgin
In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps)… — Simone Weil
Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable. — Bertrand Russell
War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit. — Robert Fisk
Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
Hinduism ... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up… — Sri Aurobindo
History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it. — Benedetto Croce
We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration. — Brian Greene

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