Cultivation Quotes

• As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, Culture, May

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• One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Running, Humor

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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• True education consists in the cultivation of the heart.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Heart, True Education

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• Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

  Daniel Webster

  Art, Men, Civilization

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• The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

  Novalis

  Knowledge, Men, Self

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• Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Food, Mind, Body

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• Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

  Plato

  Sports, Commitment, Land

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• Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Expression, Self Reliance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Food, Science, Men

  "De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the ends of good and evil)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book V: Liber Quintus, Chapter 19), 45 BC.

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• When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Essence, Goal, Perfection

  Masanobu Fukuoka (2010). “The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Flower, Evil, Needs

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1888). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

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• Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Mind, Should, Existence

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• It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Littles, Matter

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.33

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• Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

  John Ruskin

  Mind, Want, Kind

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• The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Energy, Purpose

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Plan Colombia was supposed to reduce Colombia's cultivation and distribution of drugs by 50 percent, but 6 years and $4.7 billion later, the drug control results are meager at best.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Years, Drug, Colombia

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• The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Order, Challenges, Democracy

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• I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

  William H. Wharton

  Government, Land, Suffering

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• Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Effort, Habitual

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• Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

  James A. Baldwin

  Writing, Editors, Literature

  "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, archive.nytimes.com. 1955.

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• Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Beast, Born

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• I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.

  Burton Rascoe

  Attitude, Men, Fifteen

  "Contemporary Reminiscences". Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26, (p. 50), 1927.

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• People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Country, Illinois, People

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• If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Mean, Intelligent, Intelligence

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• Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick. Now that I've understood the art, a punch is just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. The height of cultivation is really nothing special. It is merely simplicity; the ability to express the utmost with the minimum.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Simplicity, Special

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