Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. – Herbert Spencer
The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves. – Herbert Read
There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free. – Hubert H. Humphrey
I think it’s the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive. – Amanda Lindhout
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders. – Ben Stein
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. – Anne Sullivan
We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained. – Nikki Giovanni
God has leveraged the human spirit to move in His direction, and all the material we need to bring a person to the realization that they were created by God actually already exists inside that person. – Erwin McManus
Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit. – Rita Dove
It’s kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart. – Yakov Smirnoff
It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit. – Shinichi Suzuki
We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit. – Stephen Hawking
