Soul Quotes

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.
George W. Bush

Moments, Popularity, Sell

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
Friedrich Schiller

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
Catherine the Great

Courage, Brave, Disaster

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
Rudyard Kipling

Mother, Whole, Body

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughes

Care, Cry, Straighten

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Earth, Heaven, Grave

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham

Christian, Egoism, Regard

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
Sophocles

Justice, Discovers, Intends

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Anatole France

Good, Among, Critic

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
Agatha Christie

Attitude, Mind, Try

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
John Milton

May, Enjoy, Thoughts

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
Germaine Greer

Pain, Spiritual, May

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
John Donne

God, Eyes, Before

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
Simone Weil

Lie, Doubt, Whether

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
William Hazlitt

Perfect, Liberty, Journey

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Cal Thomas

Change, Government, Society

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.
Andrew Jackson

Life, May, Union

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Francois Fenelon

Best, Sad, Friends

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
W. Somerset Maugham

Nature, Down, Artist

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
Alice Walker

Women, Black, Flower

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.
Diogenes

Friend, Two, Bodies

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Eric Hoffer

Compassion, Remain, Poisonous

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
John Keats

Great, Poetry, Subject

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Him, Through, Flower

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe

Body, Diamond, Appear

Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and - since there is no other metaphor - also the soul.
Christopher Hitchens

Mind, Since, Literature

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
Ramakrishna

Body, House, Tax

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
George Santayana

Nothing, Body, Sigh

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
George Santayana

Peace, Religion, Help

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.
George Santayana

Long, Last, Bubble

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