Spirit Quotes (1145 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Stefan Zweig
„The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.“
― Stefan Zweig ―
Picture of quotation author Jonathan Zittrain
„The openness on which Apple had built its original empire had been completely reversed - but the spirit was still there among users. Hackers vied to 'jailbreak' the iPhone, running new apps on it despite Apple's desire to keep it closed.“
Picture of quotation author Madeline Zima
„If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.“
― Madeline Zima ―
Picture of quotation author Pieter Zeeman
„It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces. The idea came to me during an investigation of the effect discovered by Kerr on light reflected by magnetic mirrors.“
― Pieter Zeeman ―
Picture of quotation author Michael Zaslow
„We are treated with such generosity of spirit.“
― Michael Zaslow ―
Picture of quotation author Malala Yousafzai
„Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.“
Picture of quotation author Arthur Young
„The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.“
― Arthur Young ―
Picture of quotation author Yelawolf
„'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.“
― Yelawolf ―
Picture of quotation author William Butler Yeats
„Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.“
Picture of quotation author Liu Xiaobo
„Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.“
― Liu Xiaobo ―
Picture of quotation author Wilhelm Wundt
„Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.“
― Wilhelm Wundt ―
Picture of quotation author Donald Wuerl
„I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.“
― Donald Wuerl ―
Picture of quotation author Judith Wright
„Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.“
― Judith Wright ―
Picture of quotation author Bobby Womack
„I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.“
― Bobby Womack ―
Picture of quotation author Mary Wollstonecraft
„It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.“
Picture of quotation author Tobias Wolff
„I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.“
― Tobias Wolff ―
Picture of quotation author Tom Wolfe
„There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.“
― Tom Wolfe ―
Picture of quotation author James Wolfe
„I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.“
― James Wolfe ―
Picture of quotation author Lindsey Wixson
„I love singing, it lifts my spirit.“
― Lindsey Wixson ―
Picture of quotation author Isaac Mayer Wise
„Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.“

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