Elevate the Human Spirit as your Ultimate Duty: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

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I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. - Albert Einstein

The human make up is that of triune in nature comprising of the BODY, SOUL and SPIRT. This existence of the SPIRITUAL component of the human make up is the MOST CRITICAL and POWERFUL component of a human in influencing character development and decision making, both professionally and personally. Without an in depth understanding and appreciation of the human SPIRIT, it is impossible to try to develop and institute the desired changes in the characteristics of a person.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit. - Sherry Turkle

The human spirit may refer to the impersonal, universal, or higher component of human nature in contrast to soul or psyche which can refer to the ego or lower element. The human spirit includes our intellect, emotions, fears, passions, and creativity. It is considered to be the mental functions of awareness, insight, understanding, judgement and other reasoning powers, and consists of love, intelligence and creative action, or the qualities of purpose and meaning which transcend the individual human.

Here is a humanist proposition for the age of Google: The processing of information is not the highest aim to which the human spirit can aspire, and neither is competitiveness in a global economy. The character of our society cannot be determined by engineers. - Leon Wieseltier

When human beings meet together seeking the spirit with unity of purpose then they will also find their way to each other. - Rudolf Steiner

The human spirit is an untapped resource that can fuel organizations in this era of globalization where shared values and sense of meaning along with a sense of belonging or connectedness are largely agreed-upon aspects in the work place. By paying attention to the human spirit, higher levels of engagement that lead to stronger performance and increased satisfaction can be achieved. There is need, therefore, for leaders to develop a new mindset to bring the human spirit into the light as a key resource for excellence, esprit de corps, and high performance. Consequently, tapping the power of the human spirit has become an educational and international requirement given the challenge of globalization.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. - Ronald Reagan

The most urgent question is 'How do we elevate the human spirit around the world?' We need leaders who put service over self-interest, those who recognize what harm is being done to people and planet through practices that dominate, ignore, abuse, and suppress the human spirit. We can elevate the human spirit one leader, one conversation, one team, one organization, one community at a time. To change the world, we can start by changing the world in which we live in, and being part of something greater than ourselves. To build strong communities, we must realize that sacrifices have to be made, personal time must be invested, and sustained effort put into forming friendships.

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit. - Maya Angelou

According to Viktor Frankl, “If we take man as he really is, we make him worse. But if we overestimate him … we promote him to what he really can be. So, we have to be idealists, in a way — because then we wind up as the true, the real realists.” This is a timeless testament to the luminous tenacity of the human spirit, a wealth of insight on how to persevere through troubled times and what it means to live fully. As a result, a number of thought leaders have challenged business executives to incorporate the whole person at work by establishing the conditions and culture that challenge individuals to continue to grow and develop, instead of just focusing on business growth and profitability.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit. - Shinichi Suzuki

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity. - Dee Hock

Since individuals must develop higher orders of consciousness in order to face the demands of the planet, there is need for business leaders to tap into broader perspectives and underlying personal purpose that encourage higher-stage development of employees. Such business leaders must transcend their own egos and view the world from a more expansive perspective. Thus, leadership is a position of servanthood which requires awareness of the human spirit, including to develop an understanding of the cares, yearnings, and struggles of the human spirit.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free. - Hubert H. Humphrey

We can become warriors for the Human Spirit who make a meaningful contribution by using our energy and influence effectively while embodying the best human qualities of generosity, insight, and compassion. As a result, we can focus our lives and work on making a difference because of our abiding faith in the human spirit to create good human lives and societies. “We need leaders who recognize the harm being done to people and planet through the dominant practices that control, ignore, abuse, and oppress the human spirit. We need leaders who put service over self, stand steadfast in crises and failures, and who display unshakable faith that people can be generous, creative, and kind.” - Margaret Wheatley.

If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love. - Muhammad Ali

We strive to maintain a stable mind even in situations of contention and conflict as we focus on our efforts on the work that needs doing, not the work we want to do, “While despair might permeate the greater part of the nation, others achieved a new realization of the fact that only readiness for self-sacrifice could enable a community to survive. Some of the greatest saints in history lived in times of national decadence, raising the banner of duty and service against the flood of depravity and despair.” - Sir John Glubb, historian.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer

We understand that effective leadership hinges on a leader’s ability to access the talent, enhance the capacity, and develop the potential of people. Peoples best comes only when their imagination, heart and spirit are truly committed to an enterprise. According to W. Edwards Deming, excellence is 100 percent voluntary. Hence, to unlock the power of this voluntary commitment and dedication requires the cultivation of a working environment which supports and develops the whole person. Only in this way can leaders hope to capture the human spirit which is the basis of all true excellence. And building this environment is the essence of true leadership.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. - Bernard Beckett

Thus, creating a sense of greater purpose for an organization is perhaps one of the most positive and enduring gifts a leader can give. An organization's statement of greater purpose aspires to meet a need in the world, or make the world a better place, which resonates with a profound sense of what it means to be human. This will ensure that employees are instilled with a greater sense of meaning in what they do, a connectedness with other members of the organization, and a desire to share that positive feeling of meaning and acceptance with those beyond the organization.

The entire aim of my work is to elevate the human spirit. We can put the human spirit down so easily. - Marina Abramovic

An organization's greater purpose statement creates the foundation upon which an organization's vision and mission statements can rest. The greater purpose statement guides and defines an organization's mission statement. It is found that organizations led by a greater purpose seem to enjoy a deeper sense of commitment, connection, and compassion among its members.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. - Anne Sullivan Macy

Today we shall be standing on the shoulders of the following giants, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants,” - Sir Isaac Newton, because “The best leaders know that they are standing on the shoulders of others who have come before them.” - Germany Kent:??

1.?????The darkest moments of our lives are not to be buried and forgotten, rather they are a memory to be called upon for inspiration to remind us of the unrelenting human spirit and our capacity to overcome the intolerable. - Vince Lombardi

2.?????We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community. - Haile Selassie

3.?????Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit. - Duane Elgin

4.?????Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. - Wilma Rudolph

5.?????By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommerciable ones of the human spirit. - William Faulkner

6.?????“Because some people see a wall, and assume that’s the end of their journey. Others see it, and decide it’s just the beginning.” – Angeline Trevena

7.?????“I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.” - Ayn Rand

8.?????Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. - e. e. cummings

9.?????“The Spirit in the believer's spirit penetrates and spreads throughout their whole inner being.” - ― Henry Hon

10.??Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. - Abbie Hoffman

11.??The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

12.??Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. - Ernest L. Boyer

13.??Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good. - Zainab Salbi

14.??I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive. - Amanda Lindhout

15.??Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered. - Pema Chodron

16.??Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. - Ansel Adams

17.??Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles. - Freya Stark

18.??“The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being YOU: they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.” - Wade Davis

19.??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

20.??I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man. - Leonard Bernstein

21.??To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It is part of the human spirit to endure and give a miracle a chance to happen. - Jerome Groopman

22.??It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have! - Gilda Radner

23.??There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples. - Linda Hogan

24.??Gratitude is the best medicine. It heals your mind, you body and your spirit. And attracts more things to be grateful for. - Sayings

25.??Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing! - Pat Riley

26.??I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken. - Julianna Baggott

27.??Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit. - David Mamet

28.??It's that strength of the human spirit, the strength of what's deep down in you, that's really going to get you anywhere and everywhere. - Christina Tosi

29.??There should be an expanded role in this society for every human being. I see an expanded role for the human spirit, for excellence, for virtue, and for creativity - within women, and within everyone. - Marianne Williamson

30.??“The human spirit is tremendously resilient. It can withstand the most horrific of circumstances, whether of human or divine creation... It is not these larger-than-life situations that beat us. It's the little things.” - Sheila Williams

31.??This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one. - Lorraine Hansberry

32.??Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit. - Jawaharlal Nehru

33.??No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat. - Charles Stanley

34.??Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. - Ronald Reagan

35.??The world is part of us, and we are part of the world. Even through the smallest acts, we can demonstrate that. I believe in the human spirit, in the kindness in all of us, and I am hopeful for this world. - Clemantine Wamariya

36.??Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit. - Johann Sebastian Bach

37.??“The human spirit holds strength beyond measure, the kind that will break down the walls of all the blocks that come our way.” - Nikki rowe

38.??Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel of a gun can be effective only for a short time. In the end, peoples love for truth, justice, freedom, and democracy will triumph. No matter what governments do, the human spirit will always prevail. - Dalai Lama

39.??And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles. - Sigurd F. Olson

40.???We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit. - Ishmael Beah

41.??There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free. - Hubert H. Humphrey

42.??For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be attained, if at all, only in silence. It is in silence that the human spirit touches the divine. - Iris Murdoch

43.??We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty. - Joss Whedon

44.??Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. - Abbie Hoffman

45.??Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence. - Nikolai Berdyaev

46.??“Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.” - Iain Pears

47.??We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy. - Steve Perry

48.??No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

49.??Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. - Bob Kerrey

50.??“It's through art that the human spirit takes shape.” - Brenda Baker

51.??The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit. - Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

52.??The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit. - Herbie Hancock

53.??Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit. - Andrei Sakharov

54.??The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle. - David Baldacci

55.??I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot of bad things, too - a tremendous amount. But I don't think that the final justification of religion is the good it does for people. I think the final justification is that it's true, and truth takes priority over consequences. Religion helps us deal with what is most important to the human spirit: values, meaning, purpose, and quality. - Huston Smith

56.??But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature. - Norman McLaren

57.??I've had the opportunity to see both sides of the human spirit. I've seen those who will put you down, demean you, brand you, and have a one-track mind of destruction. But I've also seen people who uplift you. I've been on a journey unlike any others. - Brian Banks

58.??The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. - Ansel Adams

59.??We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives. - William H. Macy

60.??“Your body can be broken and repair, but your spirit once it's broken it cannot be repaired, that is why it is important to have a strong spirit, your soul is what matters the most, survive is through spirit. -Jeff Morco” - Jeff Morco

61.??Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it. - John Owen

62.??The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter. - Robin Williams

63.??“Extreme darkness rekindles the radiant flame of the human spirit. You are much stronger than you think.” - Anthon St. Maarten

64.??You cannot break the human spirit. - Mordechai Vanunu

65.??I think the human spirit is a real powerful spirit. It has no limits and it has no ends. And I hate to see it put in any kind of box - pink or green. - Frank Capra

66.??The human spirit is like an elastic band. The more you stretch, the greater your capacity. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi

67.??Only that which points the human spirit beyond its own limitations into what is universally human gives the individual strength superior to his own. Only in suprahuman demands which can hardly be fulfilled do human beings and peoples feel their true and sacred measure. - Stefan Zweig

68.??Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. - Herbert Hoover

69.??No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. - Helen Keller

70.??The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. - Walter Pater

71.??Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. - Frank Borman

72.??Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least. - Mark Twain

73.??Encouragement is like oxygen to the human spirit. Don't forget you're carrying someone else's air. Encourage them; help them breathe. - Jeremy Riddle

74.??The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless. - Dean Karnazes

75.??“KEEPING OTHERS IN YOUR CONTROL IS EVIL SPIRIT; KEEPING YOU IN OTHERS CONTROL IS HUMAN SPIRIT; KEEPING YOU IN YOUR CONTROL IS HOLY SPIRIT” - P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

76.??Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit. - Philip Yancey

77.??The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged. - Stephen Covey

78.??Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit. - Bob Uecker

79.??Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory.?- Walter Lord

80.??I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive. - Amanda Lindhout

81.??Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth. - Jacqueline Novogratz

82.??Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me. - Kristin Bauer van Straten

83.??We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from. - Jose Marti

84.??Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day: civility, respect, kindness, character. - Aaron Sorkin

85.??The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally, to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness. - Lakshmi Mittal

86.??The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work. - Ayn Rand

87.??The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things. - Martha Gellhorn

88.??“I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.” - Jill Conner Browne

89.??If we lose our significance (character) we fall in ruin. The exploiters take over and sell freedom from fear, from guilt, from want. They excuse all corrupt actions. Collective status degenerates the human spirit. - Moxie Will

90.??The human spirit is stronger than any government or institution. - Fela Kuti

91.??“It is a fact about the human spirit; one cannot receive any education with the power to transcend his/her being... beyond their belief system...” - Dr. Tracey Bond

92.??By choosing positivity you become a contender for the human spirit giving hope to those in need. - Bryant H. McGill

93.??Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. - Robert Kennedy

94.??My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit. - Oprah Winfrey

95.??The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources. - Luc de Clapiers

96.??Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth. - Pope John Paul II

97.??Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. - C. S. Lewis

98.??Whether it is considered from the viewpoint of its effect on society, or as one of the expressions of the human spirit, creativity stands out as an activity to be studied, cherished, and cultivated. - Silvano Arieti

99.??Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit. - Rita Dove

100.????????Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination. - Robert Genn

101.????????Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy. - Adora Svitak

102.????????Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people. - Ben Harper

103.????????It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity. - Howard Zinn

104.????????The greatest testimony to the human spirit that I'm witnessing now is the fact that people still come back to work, after all that has been done to them. They are still willing to participate for a more positive future if they would be sincerely invited. - Walter Wriston

105.????????Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. - John Steinbeck

106.????????The heart of our problem is the selfishness in our heart. The human spirit soars with hope when lifted by an encouraging word. The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. - Pierre de Coubertin

107.????????“The determination of the shepherds, braving the elements and the rocky terrain with their sheep and goats, is a reminder of the unbreakable human spirit.” - Ajaz Ahmad Khawaja

108.????????By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing. - Caroline Myss

109.????????Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature. - Wilhelm Dilthey

110.????????Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit. - Dorothea Lange

111.????????The independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit. - C. V. Wedgwood

112.????????Believe this! NOTHING can break or change your Spirit, because your spirit is above all things!” - Martin Suarez

113.????????Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style. - Maya Angelou

114.????????I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble. - Anita Roddick

115.????????It's natural to sit down but the human spirit within us can make us get up. - Tony Robbins

116.????????Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit. - Queen Elizabeth II

117.????????I want to be a force that tries to revive the human spirit rather than crush it, to open possibilities rather than close them down. Sometimes a passionate negativity is the best way to do that. - Ezra Furman

118.????????“There's no magic more powerful than the human spirit.” - Vic James

119.????????Power is not something we should be afraid of. Power is great, power is energy. And in terms of energy, the most important energy is human spiritual energy and when I say spiritual, I feel like have to be very careful, I don't mean religious, I mean the energy of the mind, the energy that exists within us. - Yoko Ono

120.????????When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich. - Anthony D. Williams

121.????????Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves. - Rudolf Steiner

122.????????I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive. - Amanda Lindhout

123.????????If I fail, I try again, and again, and again. If YOU fail, are you going to try again? The human spirit can handle much worse than we realize. It matters HOW you are going to FINISH. Are you going to finish strong? - Nick Vujicic

124.????????Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world. - Herbert Hoover

125.????????Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free. - Ronald Reagan

126.????????One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human. - Terry Pratchett

127.????????Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. - Edward Abbey

128.????????Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit. - John C. Maxwell

129.????????There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. - Ronald Reagan

130.????????“The collective heartbeat of the oppressed will always be louder than any missile strike, gunshot or bomb.” - R.Patient

131.????????There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes. - Leo Tolstoy

132.????????The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt. - C. S. Lewis

133.????????Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit. - Danitra Vance

134.????????The human spirit is extraordinary. If we give the 3 billion people who live in poverty the opportunity to change their lives, they will. For too long, we've looked at needing to "save" these people - with an emphasis on "these people" - rather than removing the constraints keeping them from solving their own problems. - Jacqueline Novogratz

135.????????Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy. - Adora Svitak

136.????????We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss. - Hugh Jackman

137.????????The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun. - Mario Fernandez

138.????????Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit. - Philip Yancey

139.????????Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go. - Lindsey Graham

140.????????“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as writers is to share what we know of the human spirit, we suddenly discover that we were never truly alone.” - Hal Zina Bennett

141.????????The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings. - Abraham Flexner

142.????????Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. - William Ellery Channing

143.????????Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit. - Bernard Williams

144.????????Total surrender to the demands of the human spirit: be attentive, be intelligent, be reasonable, be responsible, be in love. - Bernard Lonergan

145.????????There should be an expanded role in this society for every human being. I see an expanded role for the human spirit, for excellence, for virtue, and for creativity - within women, and within everyone. - Marianne Williamson

146.????????Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. - Bernard Beckett

147.????????The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process. - Masanobu Fukuoka

148.????????Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit. - Danitra Vance

149.????????God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry. - Woodrow Wilson

150.????????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

151.????????Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit. - Jawaharlal Nehru

152.????????I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost. It can be said that they were worthy of their sufferings; the way they bore their suffering was a genuine inner achievement. It is this spiritual freedom-which cannot be taken away-that makes life meaningful and purposeful. - Viktor E. Frankl

153.????????The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit. - Jim Rohn

154.????????Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter. - Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

155.????????Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats. - Ronald Reagan

156.????????The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts. - Jack Welch

157.????????Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit. - Robertson Davies

158.????????One thing that defines humans: if we can imagine it, we can do it. - Morgan Freeman

159.????????Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is. - Frank Lloyd Wright

160.????????There is nothing more powerful in the world than the human spirit and the human will. - Big Show

161.????????The human spirit: Unbreakable. Relentless. Free. - Garth Brooks

162.????????Torture continues to be practiced around the world by rogue regimes whose cruel methods match their determination to crush the human spirit. - George W. Bush

163.????????Pain is pain and sorrow is sorrow. It hurts. It limits. It impoverishes. It isolates. It restrains. It works devastation deep within the personality. It circumscribes in a thousand different ways. There is nothing good about it. But the gifts God can give with it are the richest the human spirit can know. - Margaret Clarkson

164.????????We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained. - Nikki Giovanni

165.????????The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality. - Caity Lotz

166.????????Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome. - Oprah Winfrey

167.????????Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit. - Richard Dawkins

168.????????The potential for greatness lives within us all. - Wilma Rudolph

169.????????We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down. - Ronald Reagan

170.????????“There simply is no stronger resolve than that of the inspired human spirit.” - Luis A. Flores

171.????????“The human spirit is a magnificent entity. Just when we think we can stand no more, something significant touches our soul... and life goes on.” - Peggy Toney Horton

172.????????I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation. - Dalai Lama

173.????????One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human. - Terry Pratchett

174.????????The human spirit can be indomitable and it is this rare quality that is not at all to be expected that makes survivors of us all, the human race in the grand scheme of things. - Martha Gellhorn

175.????????Celebrations infuse life with passion and purpose. They summon the human spirit. - Terrence E. Deal

176.????????No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

177.????????Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced. - Hans Hofmann

178.????????God is building Himself in to us, making Himself part of us as the Word rules, dominates and sanctifies our spirit nature. - T. B. Joshua

179.????????Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time, and throughout the whole length of your days. - Joseph Campbell

180.????????Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster. - Bruce Catton

181.????????Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious. - Corin Nemec

182.????????People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do. - John Guare

183.????????Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever. - Chinua Achebe

184.????????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

185.????????The very function of creativity, of the elaboration of the human condition only enlarges the human spirit and, I mean, as a writer I don't want to read political literature all the time. It would be terribly boring and, you know, abrasive, but just reading the insights, you know, partaking of the insights of a writer into phenomena, into society, into human relationships, both on a micro level and on a macro level, is already a function. - Wole Soyinka

186.????????It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature. - Aung San Suu Kyi

187.????????...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect. - Mitch Albom

188.????????Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit. - Rita Dove

189.????????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

190.????????More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource - when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually. - Dalai Lama

191.????????“One of the most important elements that keeps the human spirit high is the beauty of nature!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

192.????????This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable. - Viktor E. Frankl

193.????????I strongly believe that literature can do something that nothing else can do, and that is embody the human spirit. - Thomas McGuane

194.????????The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that. - John Guare

195.????????Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. - Stefan Banach

196.????????Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. - Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

197.????????The human spirit is resilient and truth - no matter how long you abuse it and how long you try to crush it - will, as Dr. King would say, rise up again, and in the final analysis will prevail. - Harry Belafonte

198.????????What is capable of restoring enthusiasm and confidence, what can encourage the human spirit to rediscover its path, to raise its eyes to the horizon, to dream of a life worthy of its vocation - if not beauty? - Pope Benedict XVI

199.????????We, this nation of ours, could be the richest nation in the world. We could be the freest nation in the world - but only if the arts are alive and flourishing can we experience the true meaning of our freedom, and know the full glory of the human spirit. - Richard M. Nixon

200.????????“Your spirit does not shine when the sun shines and your life is comfortable. It shines when darkness swallows you and you cannot breathe for the strangle of fear. That’s when what was invisible becomes undeniable.” - Toni Sorenson

More resources

1.?????Beyond Knowing: Elevating the Human Spirit https://trainingindustry.com/blog/leadership/beyond-knowing-elevating-the-human-spirit/

2.?????Frank Capra’s “It’s A Wonderful Life”: Elevating the Human Spirit https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2022/12/frank-capra-its-a-wonderful-life-human-spirit-onalee-mcgraw.html

3.?????How We Elevate Each Other: Viktor Frankl on the Human Spirit and Why Idealism Is the Best Realism https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/04/14/viktor-frankl-1972/

4.?????Bringing the Human Spirit to Business Leadership https://gbr.pepperdine.edu/2017/12/bringing-human-spirit-business-leadership/

5.?????The Attributes of Leadership: A Checklist https://www.christianity9to5.org/the-attributes-of-leadership/

6.?????Warriors for the Human Spirit https://berkana.org/warriors-for-the-human-spirit/

7.?????Capturing the Human Spirit https://hangingthemirror.com/2019/12/09/capturing-the-human-spirit/

8.?????WARRIORS FOR THE HUMAN SPIRIT https://margaretwheatley.com/2020-europe-warriors-for-the-human-spirit-training/

9.?????UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN SPIRIT https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/understanding-human-spirit-paul-nathan-cpeng-mieaust-intpe-apec-engr/

10.??Leading with Purpose: Fueling the Human Spirit in Times of Uncertainty https://www.bus.umich.edu/FacultyResearch/Research/TryingTimes/Purpose.htm

11.??LEADERSHIP OUTSIDE THE BOX: THE POWER OF NURTURING THE HUMAN SPIRIT AT WORK IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED570501.pdf ?

12.??Human spirit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_spirit ?

13.??Voices of the Human Spirit https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/voices/