Ants Quotes

• I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.

  Jim Rohn

  Giving Up, Philosophy, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 06, 2011

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• All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Work, Done, Littles

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• Life is priceless even to an ant.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Priceless, Life Is

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• Next time you see an ant, remember: winter is coming! The best time to prepare for tomorrow is today.

  Haddon W. Robinson

  Winter, Today, Next

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• When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.

  Sakya Pandita

  Goal, Working Together, Lions

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• It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Time, Fog

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I wonder what ants do on rainy days?

  Haruki Murakami

  Rainy Day, Wonder, Rainy

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.349, Random House

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• Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.

  Clarence Day

  Responsibility, Good Day, Firsts

  Clarence Day (1997). “This Simian World”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Looks, World

  "The interview: David Lynch" by Gaby Wood and Hazel Sheffield, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2009.

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• The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

  Clarence Day

  Wise, Vacation, Knowing

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

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• If all humans disappeared today ,the earth would start improving tomorrow.If all the ants disappeared today ,the earth would start dying tomorrow.

  David Suzuki

  Dying, Earth, Today

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• Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

  Mortimer Adler

  Motivational, Moving On, Live Life

  "Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind".

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• If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

  Marie Dressler

  Time, Picnics, Busy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

  E. O. Wilson

  Organization, Earth, Next

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• Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

  Saadi

  Fighting, Together, Lions

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• An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Success, Moving

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• There is no need for ants to have the ability to fly

  Karl Pilkington

  Needs, Ability

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.40, Canongate Books

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• Every ant  knows the  formula of its ant-hill, every  bee knows  the formula  of its  beehive. They know it  in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Bees, Doe, Way

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• People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

  Bela Lugosi

  Life, Thinking, People

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• Ants are a curious race

  Robert Frost

  Race, Curious

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• Do not kill ants. They are your best friends.

  Joe Brainard

  Your Best Friend

  Joe Brainard (1971). “Selected Writings, 1962-1971”

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• The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

  Ezra Pound

  Dragons, World, Centaurs

  Cantos no. 81, l. 144 (1948)

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• ..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Died

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• Turn on the prudent
  Ant, thy heedful eyes,
  Observe her labours,
  Sluggard, and be wise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Eye, Laziness

  "The poems of Samuel Johnson".

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• The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

  Bill Vaughan

  Whales, Fine

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