Soul Quotes

These 46 quotes on soul come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. — Swami Sivananda
Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. — Kahlil Gibran
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Kahlil Gibran
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. — Rumi
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
Rumi
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. — Nelson Mandela
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops at all. — Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tune without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. — Bob Marley
Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
Bob Marley
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul. — Walt Whitman
Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.
Walt Whitman
I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. — Black Elk
I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
Black Elk
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers. — Black Elk
The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers.
Black Elk
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Brontë
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë
Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit. — Charles Eastman
Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.
Charles Eastman
Human beings are members of a whole, in creation of one essence and soul. — Saadi Shirazi
Human beings are members of a whole, in creation of one essence and soul.
Saadi Shirazi
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
Paramahansa Yogananda
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are. — Marcus Aurelius
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius
Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage. — Albert Camus
Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
Albert Camus
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. — Bill Watterson
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
Bill Watterson
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. — Kahlil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Kahlil Gibran
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. — James Joyce
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight.
James Joyce
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