Soul Quotes

• I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Great
  • Music
  • Political

• His puritan, muscular, moor-tramping soul (superbly mirrored in Higgins's hymn to the intellect in Pygmalion) bred in him a loathing of all things, whether poems or gadgets, that were designed to comfort the human condition without actively trying to improve it.

  

  Kenneth Tynan
  • Trying
  • Soul

• All instincts that do not discharge themselves outwardly turn inward - this is what I call the internalization of man: thus it was that man first developed what was later called his 'soul.'

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Soul

• Destructive criticism is the biggest single enemy of human potential. It is worse than cancer or heart disease. While those diseases can ultimately lead to the deterioration and death of an individual, destructive criticism kills the soul of the person but leaves the body walking around.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Single

• It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Effects
  • Diseases
  • Disastrous

• Go - take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man, and What men live by. When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Men
  • Live
  • Mother

• There is a destiny that makes us brothers:None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back onto our own.I care not what his temples or his creeds,One thing holds firm and fastThat into his fateful heap of days and deedsThe soul of man is cast.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • Soul
  • Alone
  • Destiny

• You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

  

  Gabriela Mistral
  • Soul
  • Create
  • Senses

• Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Mind
  • Soul

• The sight of such aching beauty would infuse his soul with pain.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Soul
  • Pain

• There's been a time where I was like, I wanna be a folk singer; no, I wanna sing soul. I want to sing classical music. I want to sing R&B. I want to be on Broadway. I just wanna sing. Whatever comes out of my mouth, that's what I want to do.

  

  Khalid
  • Time
  • Music
  • Soul

• If someone were to ask me before I made the NBA, you going to have to go through all this, you're going to have to sign your soul away to play in the league, I still would have done it.

  

  Chris Webber
  • Done
  • Soul

• The facts of science, as they appeared to him Heraclitus, fed the flame in his soul, and in its light, he saw into the depths of the world.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Science
  • Light

• By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Passions

• Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.

  

  Edward Bach
  • Mind
  • Spiritual
  • Effort

• Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Soul
  • Sweet
  • Wind

• There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • American
  • Law
  • Hand

• I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Great
  • Men
  • Children

• You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

  

  George A. Moore
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Career

• I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music, which definitely influenced the way I sing. But singing gospel has made me a much more humble person. There are so many people who were geniuses who only a few people knew about when they were alive.

  

  Patty Griffin
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Power

• The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Soul
  • Sin
  • Manuscript

• It's just what I'm born to do, I'm born to entertain people. I could do it for thirty-thousand people or three people, it's just what I know how to do. My soul objective only is for me to have the audience say 'when's the next time I can see him?' That's what I do.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Soul
  • Audience

• I've always felt that I inherited an old soul, and I've tried to live my life with equality and balance. I do not, nor have I ever, considered myself anything any more or any less than a musician, and I cringe at the term 'rock star'. I suppose I'd like to be known as more than a hard rock guitarist. That was my purpose and ambition twenty years ago and there's been a lot of growth since.

  

  Vivian Campbell Def Leppard
  • Purpose
  • Balance
  • Musician

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