Spirit Quotes

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life.

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.