Soul Quotes

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

~ Frederick Douglass

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

~ Albert Einstein

Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy.

~ James E. Faust

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.

~ Ellen G. White

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

~ Russell M. Nelson

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

The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?

~ Dag Hammarskjöld

If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently, and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers.

~ George Müller

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

~ Francis Bacon

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

~ Dick Dale

Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

~ Chanakya

A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

~ Theodore Parker

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

~ Frances Wright

Each country has a soul, and France's soul is equality.

~ Francois Hollande

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

~ Plato

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

~ Berthold Auerbach

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

~ Dhani Jones

Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.

~ Kim Fields

Whether looking at pop music, hip-hop or R&B, it's rare to find an artist who hasn't been touched or affected by the power and soul of gospel music. In fact, many of today's popular artists such as Whitney Houston, John Legend, and Katy Perry started their careers in the church choir.

~ Marvin Sapp

Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.

~ Andra Day

Soul music is timeless.

~ Alicia Keys

Soul music is about longevity and reaching and touching people on a human level - and that's never going to get lost.

~ Jill Scott

The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

~ Claudio Monteverdi

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

~ Isaac Stern

R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.

~ Babyface

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.

~ James Dyson

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

~ P. J. Harvey

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

~ Felix Mendelssohn

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

~ Katey Sagal

The calm mind allows one to connect with the inner self, the Soul, the very source of our being. That's where the music lives. That's where my music comes from.

~ Clarence Clemons

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

~ Mickey Hart

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

~ George Sand

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

~ Samuel Ullman

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

~ Epicurus