Thrive Quotes - Page 7

• None thrives for long upon the happiest dream.

  Coventry Patmore

  Dream, Long

  Coventry Patmore (1906). “Poems: The unknown eros, Amelia, etc”

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• The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Team, Home, Important

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• Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

  Sissela Bok

  Integrity, Foundation, Resources

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.301, Vintage

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• Many souls thrive on the life force of others and you are lunch!

  Frederick Lenz

  Lunch, Soul, Force

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• People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .

  Po Bronson

  Work, People, Connecting

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• Tell me what you will of the benefactions of city civilization, of the sweet security of streets-all as part of the natural upgrowth of man towards the high destiny we hear so much of. I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. If the death exhalations that brood the broad towns in which we so fondly compact ourselves were made visible, we should flee as from a plague. All are more or less sick; there is not a perfectly sane man in San Francisco.

  John Muir

  Sweet, Travel, Destiny

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.28, Great West Books

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• If you thrive on the city energy it is necessary to leave the city frequently and to walk in parks, to get away from people. You are more sensitive than you realize. Find a spot that makes you happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Buddhism, Cities

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• Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

  Nicholas Stern

  Policy Making, Challenges, Democracy

  "The point of no return" by Nicholas Stern, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2009.

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• I'm happy single, but I'm happy in both cases. I feel like I definitely thrive more as a human and I'm more successful when I'm single.

  Holly Madison

  Successful, Happy Single, Cases

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• Thus godlike sympathy grows and thrives and spreads far beyond the teachings of churches and schools, where too often the mean, blinding, loveless doctrine is taught that animals have no rights that we are bound to respect, and were only made for man, to be petted, spoiled, slaughtered or enslaved.

  John Muir

  Teaching, School, Mean

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.56, Library of America

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• I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.

  John Muir

  Air, Body, Environment

  John Muir, Peter Browning (1988). “John Muir, in His Own Words: A Book of Quotations”, p.28, Great West Books

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• May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

  Coco Chanel

  Happy Life, Long, Wish

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• Self-righteousness is much like a spiritual egocentricity. It constitutes a secular type of love that thrives under conditionality, one in which is only existent after an individual meets the adopted standards of the condemner; oppositely, unconditional love is a holy love.

  Criss Jami

  True Love, Spiritual, Unconditional Love

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.121, Criss Jami

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• Character is victory organized.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Victory, Organized

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• To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive.

  Marcus Garvey

  Race, Organization, America

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.129, The Majority Press

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• Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Law, Crap

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• Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

  Robert Genn

  Competition, Suffering, Who Cares

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• I've never been a social bunny. I thrive on work.

  Michelle Ryan

  Bunnies, Social

  Interview with Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. October 26, 2009.

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• A poem needs disguises. It needs secrets. It thrives on the tension between what is said and not said; it prefers the oblique, the implied, the ironic, the suggestive; when it speaks, it wants you to lean forward a little to overhear; it wants you to understand things only years later.

  J. D. McClatchy

  Years, Secret, Ironic

  J. D. McClatchy (2013). “Twenty Questions”, p.30, Columbia University Press

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• When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

  Richard Jenkins

  People, Tough, Argument

  "Interview: Richard Jenkins on First Lead Role in 'The Visitor,' 'Six Feet Under,' Coen Brothers". HollywoodChicago.com Interview, www.hollywoodchicago.com. June 24, 2008.

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• Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.

  Sissela Bok

  Atmosphere, Matter, Humans

  Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.69, Vintage

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• In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to all physical, biological and social systems that survive and thrive.... But let’s take that one step forward... the systems just described are ... constantly evolving. This suggests another design principle: ... design for evolution rather than creating a static design optimizing for the present.

  John Hagel

  Order, Creating, Design

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• One of my themes is that there is good and evil in everyone. I was not out to make these guys heroes. I really don't believe in heroes. The best of people have a dark side and it's a constant struggle for the better side to survive and to thrive.

  William Friedkin

  Believe, Struggle, Hero

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• Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

  Jared Polis

  Government, Priorities, Promise

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• Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

  James Shirley

  Knavery, Knaves, Honest

  James Shirley (1793). “The Maid's Revenge. A Tragedy [in Five Acts, in Prose and Verse].”, p.38

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