Top 100 A Great Soul Quotes
#1. If your Life is full of Sorrow, then beg, steal, or borrow ENTHUSIASM from a great soul to make your Life whole.-RVM
R.v.m.
#2. There is no truer, warmer pleasure in this world than to behold a great soul opening up towards oneself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#3. She says, he is a great soul. - A great bladder for dried peas to rattle in! said Mrs. Cadwallader.
George Eliot
#5. Wherever a great soul utters its thoughts, there is Golgatha.
Heinrich Heine
#6. Higher than the question of our duration is the question of our deserving. Immortality will come to such as are fit for it, and he would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. If you're facing what looks like a large problem, receive it as a compliment from the Universe. What a great soul you must be!
Mary Morrissey
#8. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak, and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all His laws.
John Quincy Adams
#9. Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.
Heinrich Heine
#11. Dans une grande a me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.
Blaise Pascal
#12. A great soul is called Saragrahi that means one who is always looking for the essence of every situation that comes before us.
Radhanath Swami
#13. Each of us is a great life and a great soul
Ilchi Lee
#14. Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama.
Dinesh Sharma
#15. A great soul craves occupations and recognizes obligations more in harmony with the true nobility of human nature.
Alfred Wesley Wishart
#18. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.
Maya Angelou
#22. The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs. Death seems to him a mere play.
Sarada Devi
#23. There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!
Thomas Carlyle
#24. The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare.
Honore De Balzac
#25. It is the quality of a great soul to scorn great things and to prefer that which is ordinary rather than that which is too great.
Seneca.
#27. The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
Aristotle.
#28. The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world
Democritus
#29. Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth.
Camron Wright
#31. Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.
Bob Seger
#32. The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
Sigmund Freud
#33. I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."
Tony Robbins
#34. I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.
Honore De Balzac
#35. I do like to teach. Sitting in my great chair at school, I used to consider myself as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth ... To fire a newborn soul with ardor for learning! At that time I thought the world could afford no greater pleasure.' - Those Who Love, p. 177
Irving Stone
#36. A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#37. Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!
Lin Yutang
#39. A good Soul hath neither too great joy, nor too great sorrow: for it rejoiceth in goodness; and it sorroweth in wickedness. By the means whereof, when it beholdeth all things, and seeth the good and bad so mingled together, it can neither rejoice greatly; nor be grieved with over much sorrow.
Pythagoras
#40. Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
Victor Hugo
#41. There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great black fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. Horrible as successful artists often are, there is nothing crueler or more vain than a failed artist.
Erica Jong
#42. I think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and street. She embodies everything and beauty, great beauty, so she was a favorite subject.
Carol Friedman
#43. When shall we pass a day alone? I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love - but if you should deny me the thousand and first - 'twould put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.
John Keats
#44. There's no heaven as I had known before.
It's just a great universe which is available
to be enjoyed by souls who dream about it.
Toba Beta
#45. When faith touches your heart, you can walk on water.
When fear pricks your soul, you can sink on land.
With a great mind, you can achieve countless things.
With a strong heart, you can achieve extraordinary things.
With a loving soul, you can achieve impossible things.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#46. Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
Victor Hugo
#47. The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us, and which touches us so profoundly, that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent as to knowing what it is.
Blaise Pascal
#48. I think it's great that they can come in and suck us dry. Remind me to leave my window unlatched tonight. Day. Night. Whatever. Cone steal my soul, you worthless bastards. I'm open like a twenty-four-hour blood diner donor. (Dev)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#49. I'm not trying to compete with any other revival soul acts. It's just Leon Bridges, a kid from Fort Worth trying to be himself and give people hope. It's great music to dance to and just love.
Leon Bridges
#50. In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.
Aime Martin
#51. You can't be conferred with a glory you never configured your mind to come to.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#52. The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.
Samuel Chadwick
#53. Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#54. Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.
Orson Welles
#55. When I connect to my soul, project it into another # character , and then bring it to the stage or to a film
that has always been for me the great joy of # acting . It's been as if my soul kind of leaps out of my body and is able to be free and dance around.
Kyra Sedgwick
#56. A great book feeds our soul and nourishes our spirit in a way nothing else can.
C.S. Lakin
#57. The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light ... It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence.
Marilynne Robinson
#58. Artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
Phyllis Bottome
#59. The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#60. The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.
Blaise Pascal
#61. God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women.
Jeremy Taylor
#62. Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal, coming up with an inspirational solution ... It's very addictive. But it doesn't last long. In isolation, it's a bit sterile. It doesn't reward the soul.
John Caudwell
#63. As you gain elevation [on the mountain] your IQ goes down - but your emotional affect goes up, which is great for having a mythic experience, whether you want to or not.
Stewart Brand
#64. There is neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor any other person whatsoever who can embrace the object beloved with so great a love as that wherewith God embraceth the soul.
Angela Of Foligno
#65. Each one of us is Divine. We've come from a great Divine source. We are each of us a spark of the Divine. That spark could not demonstrate itself at the dense, physical level, so it reflects itself at the soul level.
Benjamin Creme
#67. Send the harmony of a Great Desire vibrating through every fiber of your being. Pray for a task that will call forth your faith, your courage, your perseverance, and you spirit of sacrifice. Keep your hands and your soul clean, and the conquering current will flow freely.
Thomas Dreier
#68. Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
Ziggy Marley
#69. There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.
Cassandra Clare
#70. True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement.
Nur Sakinah Thomas
#71. My father started out as a riveter, but he had the soul of an artist. He worshiped Shakespeare and had aspirations to be an actor. He claimed that from the first day he laid eyes on me, I was going to be this great dramatic actress.
Christine Ebersole
#72. The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body, but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
Louise Brooks
#73. To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside out
Sara Niles, Torn From the Inside Out
Sara Niles
#74. The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action ... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
John Webster
#75. This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
Martin Luther
#76. Night is a great gift from God" he said."It is the mother of man and comes quietly and tenderly to cover him.It rests its cool hand on his forehead and effaces the day's cares from his body and soul.Brothers its time to surrender ourselves to night's embrace
Nikos Kazantzakis
#77. He drinks his stout and laughs that there's nothing like a great bloody steak of a Friday night and if that's the worst sin he ever commits he'll float to heaven body and soul, ha ha ha.
Frank McCourt
#78. Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater - no, nothing, nothing!
John Vianney
#79. Down deep in every soul has a hidden longing, impulse, and
ambition to do something fine and enduring ... If you are willing,
great things are possible to you.
Grenville Kleiser
#80. For only the body would die, whereas the loss of a soul is a great loss which is apparently without end;
Teresa Of Avila
#81. And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long sin and suffering it had bred.
Herman Melville
#82. Benefit. A humble heart is a great help towards profitably hearing the gospel. The engrafted soul saving word is not received except with meekness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#83. A person is a great process, a bridge from animal to Soul. But we do not know about it
Anatoliy Obraztsov
#84. Everything you do,
do with great love.
Make it a song of your soul,
and beauty of your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#85. To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.
Ellen Key
#86. Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
Robert Genn
#87. Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us.
Teresa Of Avila
#88. I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.
Michelle Yeoh
#89. The term "spirit projection" sprang to mind. Are you familiar with it? Japanese folk tales are full of this sort of thing, where the soul temporarily leaves the body and goes off a great distance to take care of some vital task and then returns to reunite with the body.
Haruki Murakami
#91. Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.
Zora Neale Hurston
#92. I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theatre, there's the acting part of acting - and I'm not saying that can't be great - and there's the essence. To explore that essence, you need a key, a look, a gesture, an insight that unlocks the person's soul.
Ralph Fiennes
#93. My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
George Bernard Shaw
#94. I suppose a great and soul filling love is perhaps the greatest experience a man may have, but it is such a rarity as to be almost negligible.
Everett Ruess
#95. Naturally we all have an inclination to command, and a great aversion to obey; and yet it is certain that it is more for our good to obey than to command; hence perfect souls have always had a great affection for obedience, and have found all their joy and comfort in it.
Saint Francis De Sales
#96. Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul; like cages to birds, or pounds to beasts.
Pierre Charron
#97. Says he foun' he jus' got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain't no good, 'cause his little piece of a soul wasn't no good 'less it was with the rest, an' was whole.
John Steinbeck
#98. And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.
Aristotle.
#99. Laughter is always good for one's soul. It helps rid stress in many and a great healer for all.
Timothy Pina
#100. And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.
Maya Angelou
