Great Souls Quotes

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

When we speak of the dust of the lotus feet of the Spiritual Master, we are speaking of humble approach to serve his instructions. Unless we humbly serve the instructions of the great soul, it is Krishna’s arrangement the He never reveals Himself.

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

We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress.

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

The great souls who became mighty in prayer and rejoiced to spend three and four hours a day alone with God were once beginners.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

People will never forget how you made them feel.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

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

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

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.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

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

Valor is common but great souls are rare.

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul

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!

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

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

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!

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul.

And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

Features, the great soul’s apparent seat.

Dans une grande a”В  me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

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

Great souls are harmonious.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

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.

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.

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

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

It’s the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man’s height above the earth – that’s true. Whatever clips off man’s wings – that’s false.

Great souls suffer in silence.

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.

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

Great souls endure in silence.

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

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!

Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories.

It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them today. It springs from the anguish of great souls. From the souls of men not formed, but deformed in factories whose inspiration is pelf.