Great Soul Quotes

Great soul; start and end your day with God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The grace of God transforms the good soul into great soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. ~ Bill Vaughan

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. ~ Harriet Martineau

Great mind, great soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great soul of Gandhi, cover your ears. You will not want to hear this! Listen, you inbred piece of Ku Klux Krap! You white people love to be racist, but the only races you can tell apart are Indianapolis and Daytona. I hope I am reincarnated as toothpaste, so I never have to see you again. Now take your twelve-pack of wife-beating juice and get the park out of my store! ~ Carlos Mencia

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

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds. ~ Garrett Fort

You are great soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Each of us is a great life and a great soul ~ Ilchi Lee

Every great soul had great mentors. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A great soul craves occupations and recognizes obligations more in harmony with the true nobility of human nature. ~ Alfred Wesley Wishart

Great soul, great spirit. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy! ~ Queen Victoria

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

Great spirit, Great soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line of steel runs through the heather of no-man's-land, and the holiday-maker claims the valleys for his own. But this busyness is but of yesterday, and not ten years ago the fields lay quiet to the gaze of placid beasts and the wandering stars. This story I have culled from the grave of an old fashion, and set down for the love of a great soul and the poetry of life. ~ John Buchan

Because of the active principle and spirit or universal soul, nothing is so incomplete, defective or imperfect, or, according to common opinion, so completely insignificant that it could not become the source of great events. ~ Giordano Bruno

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate. ~ Rick Derringer

You are a great soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

What an excellent great soul you are? ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again. ~ Maya Angelou

It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles. ~ Seneca The Younger

Love is your true soulmate, fear is your great soul enemy. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Every great soul had a great mentor. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rob [Reiner] is a teddy bear. He's hell delicious. He's a really good director. He's a great soul. In the movie business, I would call him a movie mom. The only person I hold in equal esteem is Clint Eastwood. Now I have worked with a lot of terrific directors, and I don't mean to be putting any of them below their own station, but these two, I relish working with them. ~ Morgan Freeman

Since ancient Time began,
Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden
The weight of all this world, the hopes of man,
Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon. ~ Richard Watson Gilder

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest. ~ Keegan Allen

When a Krishna Conscious person is elevated to a responsible position, he never becomes puffed up. Just like a tree when over-laden with fruits becomes humble and lower down. Similarly, a great soul in Krishna Consciousness becomes humbler than the grass and bowed down like the fruitful trees because a Krishna Conscious person acts as the agent of Krishna, therefore he discharges his duty with great responsibility. ~ A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

A great nose may be an index
Of a great soul ~ Edmond Rostand

By reading, we will know the minds of great soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It takes grace to be a great soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him. ~ Pawan Mishra

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

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.

The great soul is the person who has taken on the task of change. If he or she is able to transcend fear, to act out of courage, the whole group will benefit and each one, in his or her own life, will be suddenly more courageous, though they may not see how or why. ~ Gary Zukav

The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare. ~ Honore De Balzac

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha. ~ Heinrich Heine

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men. ~ Mark Twain

Virtually all letter writers confessed how their encounter with Nietzsche's philosophy either emboldened or chastened them, liberated them from old falsehoods, or saddled them with new moral responsibilities. Helen Bachmuller of Dayton, Ohio, wrote to let Förster-Nietzsche know that her brother had inspired the belief that human greatness was still possible in the modern world. Though unworthy of his greatness, he nevertheless awakened in her a longing for something deeper in herself. Nietzsche, Bachmuller confessed, had saved her from her 'own inner emptiness.' The 'Ohio country' she called home had become 'tame and commonplace,' filled with lives 'trivial and ... essentially ugly, for they are engrossed with matters of money and motors, not with work or faith or art.' She regarded the Methodist church near her house as 'vulgar, pretentious.' Though disgusted by the offensive mediocrity around her, she was also chagrined by her own limitations: 'It would be, probably, impossible for you to imagine anything more superficial than I am.' But reading presumably the recently released translation of Förster-Nietzsche's The_Nietzsche-Wagner_Correspondence had exposed Bachmuller to 'depths beyond depths, of one great soul striking fire against another great soul, and I became thrilled. I could feel the harmonies and dissonances, the swell and surge of those two glorious beings, and I felt much more that I cannot express.' Reading Nietzsche enlivened her to the possibility 'for a com ~ Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath. ~ Laurence Binyon

There is no truer, warmer pleasure in this world than to behold a great soul opening up towards oneself. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do. ~ Phillips Brooks

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development. ~ Brian Behlendorf

The great soul surrenders itself to fate. ~ Seneca The Elder

What God says I am is what I am: great soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. ~ Robert Benchley

I know who I am: a great soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is gratefulness which makes the soul great. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

A great soul was always born from a great insistence. ~ S.L. Tsao

All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero,
the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in. ~ Thomas Carlyle

The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world. ~ Romain Rolland

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. ~ Harriet Martineau

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

Never ever feel inferior because of the colour of your skin. Great is your soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul. ~ Edward Bach

Here is your great soul - the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself. ~ Seneca.

If productivity, efficiency, and rationality are not the ways God gauges a human person's value, then they are not the ways I should measure it, eiher. If childlike dependence on God is the mark of a great soul, then there are great souls hidden in all sorts of places where the world sees only disability, decay, and despair. ~ Colleen Carroll Campbell

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured ... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness. ~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

The world has lost a truly great soul today. Stephen Covey was a man whose 'work was love made visible.' He touched millions of people by the strength of his integrity and the depth of his caring. He was a personal friend, an extraordinary father, and a model for what human beings are truly capable of. Please join us in sending love and prayers to his family. ~ Tony Robbins

The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world ~ Democritus

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.

The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every form of authority and domination bears a severe burden of proof. It is not self-legitimizing. And when it cannot bear the burden, as is commonly the case, it should be dismantled. ~ Noam Chomsky

Him I call a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (wicked soul). Let us unite our wills in continued prayer for their good. ~ Swami Vivekananda

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great soul, great self-esteem. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

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

Every great soul nurtures strong positive mental power. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Many even see in Obama a messiah-like figure, a great soul, and some affectionately call him Mahatma Obama. ~ Dinesh Sharma

Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together. ~ William J. Clinton

That's how happiness comes. It comes in bits and pieces, at different times. When we're children we hope for great happiness, some enormous, total happiness. And as we wait for this phenomenon to take place we let the little happinesses, the only real ones, pass us by, or fail to appreciate them.

They seem to be mere trifles. A quiet conversation with a friend. Those seagulls wheeling about perhaps. This sky. The beer we drank a while ago.

Sometimes I think that these little happinesses exist precisely because they're little ones. Like those mere nobodies passing by that no one ever notices. ~ Ernesto Sabato

(Life) it was a little bit nearer than God, but no less powerful and terrible. Yes, it was something, perhaps, that one did not wish to understand because one feared it, something to which one paid tribute lest it should feel offended and seize one, body and soul. ~ Arthur Holitscher

Sometimes souls are meant to meet and fleet for they have different contracts to complete. ~ Nikki Rowe

I still think of Oregon Trail as a great leveler. If, for example, you were a twelve-year-old girl from Westchester with frizzy hair, a bite plate, and no control over your own life, suddenly you could drown whomever you pleased. Say you have shot four bison, eleven rabbits, and Bambi's mom. Say your wagon weighs 9,783 pounds and this arduous journey has been most arduous. The banker's sick. The carpenter's sick. The butcher, the baker, the algebra-maker. Your fellow pioneers are hanging on by a spool of flax. Your whole life is in flux and all you have is this moment. Are you sure you want to forge the river? Yes. Yes, you are. ~ Sloane Crosley

Americans are the great Satan, the wounded snake. ~ Ruhollah Khomeini

And he wonders if he has a space in his brain or in his soul for monsters and demons, or if he will, like most people, choose insanity when confronted with a fearsome reality. ~ Christopher Rice

A good author can pull you into their world, a great author can make you stay. ~ Tauicita Jones

What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion. ~ Ralph Bakshi

Of all the great world religions, Christianity should value the body most. After all, it taught that God had in some sense taken a human body and used it to redeem the world; everything about the physical should have been sacred and sacramental. But that had not happened. instead, the churches had found it almost impossible to integrate the sexual with the divine and had developed a Platonic aversion to the body - particularly the bodies of women. ~ Karen Armstrong

You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love into, Is the most calming thing In this World. ~ Emery Allen

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

At this day ... the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; ... but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God. ~ John Calvin

I never expected the movement against globalization and corporate rule to mushroom as quickly as it has, either. And right now the strongest electoral arm of that movement is the Green Party. I try to stress to people cynical about voting that the Greens are the most effective electoral arm of the so-called Spirit of Seattle, and it's great fun to cause trouble in the streets, but that's not going to accomplish much without insurrection in the voting booth at the same time. ~ Jello Biafra

Everybody can be great because everybody can serve ... You only need a heart full of grace. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

It was strange, he said, but standing there on the sidewalk with the great grey chasms of Toronto's streets extending away to every side of him and the leash dangling from his hand, he had felt for the first time that he was at home: the feeling of having unwittingly caused an irreversible change, of his failure being the force that broke new ground, was, he realized standing there, the deepest and most familiar thing he knew. By failing he created loss, and loss was the threshold to freedom: an awkward and uncomfortable threshold, but the only one he had ever been able to cross; usually, he said, because he was shoved across it as a consequence of the events that had brought him there. ~ Rachel Cusk

They move, don't they? Who do you think sets things to moving? Nothing that moves lacks a soul. ~ Mark Helprin

I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good enough is good enough. There is time for refinement later. It's not how great you start - it's how great you end up. ~ Guy Kawasaki

I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad. ~ Oliver Hudson

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world filled with voices that shout: 'You are no good, you are ugly; you are worthless; you are despicable, you are nobody- unless you can demonstrate the opposite.' These negative voices are so loud and so persistent that it is easy to believe them. That's the great trap. It is the trap of self-rejection. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Surely our language is the image of our soul ~ William Soutar

A dog that has been beaten for years will die if it is thrown out in the street to fend for itself. It will cringe in corners, not trusting a soul but always hoping for some kindness. The one emotion it will not feel is relief at its freedom. ~ Toni Maguire