Great Soul Quotes

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.

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.

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

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

The great soul of this world is just.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

Features, the great soul's apparent seat.

Some books are drenchèd sandsOn which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,Like a wrecked argosy.

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

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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.

Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!

There's nothing better than meeting somebody with a great soul, and a great spirit and a good heart.

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

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.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.