Thrive Quotes - Page 2

• In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, 'Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.'

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Country, Eye

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Marriage, Positivity

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• When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.

  Rumi

  Hands, Gold, Looks

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• A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

  Pam Brown

  Friendship, Silly, Weather

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• Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Men, Challenges

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.62, Penguin

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• There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Baby, Children, Wings

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• The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strength, Perseverance, Adversity

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People”, p.60, tredition

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• Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Change, Expression, Being Sad

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• Always let your reach exceed your grasp.

  Og Mandino

  Exceed

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• People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

  Ayn Rand

  People, Looks, Walks

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.264, Penguin

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• Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Positive Thinking, Hardship

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• The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Joy, Excess

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.230, Cambridge University Press

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• A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Men, Intelligence

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Money, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1834, Penguin

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• One man with courage is a majority.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Success, Courage

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• To fully thrive, we must not only eliminate the stressors but also actively seek joyful, loving, fulfilling lives that stimulate growth processes

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Growth, Joyful, Process

  Bruce H. Lipton (2015). “The Biology of Belief 10th Anniversary Edition: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles”, p.186, Hay House, Inc

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• We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

  Golda Meir

  Military, Thank God, Efficient

  Vogue, July 1969.

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• Strong blasphemers thrive only when strong believers thrive.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Strong, Believer

  "Riders of the Purple Wage". Book by Philip Jose Farmer, 1967.

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• Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

  Victor Borge

  Humor, Men, Logic

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• I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Destiny

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• Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

  Maimonides

  Astrology, Tree, Shade

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• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Buddhist, Buddhism

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.14, Penguin Books India

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  It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Patriotic, Independent

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