Thrive Quotes - Page 24

• He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Reading, Liberty

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Ravens, Smell

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• On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Meaningful, Perseverance, Truth

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• People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hope, Believe, Rights

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• Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Understanding, Gone, World

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• Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Strong, Quality

  "Mixed Opinions and Maxims" by Friedrich Nietzsche, aphorism 370, "The Danger in Admiration", 1879.

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• He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humility, Wish, Existentialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Pockets, Hundred

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business - you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

  Barack Obama

  Successful, Bridges, Lines

  Barack Obama's Remarks at a Campaign Event in Roanoke, Virginia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 13, 2012.

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• Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

  George Orwell

  Witty, Peace, Truth

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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• If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

  George Orwell

  Time, Freedom, Future

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• Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

  George Orwell

  Political Language, Decay, Chaos

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

  George Orwell

  Future, Past, Thinking

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

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• One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

  George Orwell

  Order, Doe, Revolution

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 3 (1949)

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• The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.

  Frank Herbert

  Strong, Moving, Greatness

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.116, Penguin

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• He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive, he was born With everything but the will – That can be deformed, just like a limb. Death was more interesting to him. Life could not get his attention.

  Ted Hughes

  Interesting, Attention, Born

  Ted Hughes (1975). “Season songs”, Viking Pr

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• He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Learning, Secret, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.20, 谷月社

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• Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.

  Cameron Dokey

  Needs, Accepted, Sooner Or Later

  Cameron Dokey (2009). “Winter's Child”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Problem, Oppression

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Church, Persecution, Martyrdom

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

  Tarja Halonen

  Opportunity, Creative, Males

  Speech at The Opening Of The Women Of Learning Exhibition In Helsinki, www.helsinki.fi. August 5, 2000.

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• The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

  Nick Hanauer

  Class, People, Helping

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• If business doesn't thrive, it hurts America. We need improved relations, more collaboration, more thought and more consistency as we go about trying to make sure we have the best country in the world. Not scapegoating and finger-pointing.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, Hurt, America

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• I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.

  David Neeleman

  Challenges, Add, Ability

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• There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

  Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

  Children, Adversity, Curves

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