Top 100 Quotes About Cultivate
#1. For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness.
Pema Chodron
#2. Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.
Ole Hallesby
#3. The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. I teach in a university, and I think about where's the place in that kind of educational institution for embodied knowledge? And how do we cultivate that? And how do we trust it? But
Krista Tippett
#5. Companions in pathos,who barely murmur,go with your lamp spent and return the jewels. A new mystery sings in your bones. Cultivate your legitimate strangeness.
Rene Char
#6. The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example. If they see their mothers and other women in their lives going forward despite fear, they'll know it's possible.
Gloria Steinem
#8. [ ... ] I could not go on for ever so: I want to enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those of other people. I must enjoy them now; don't recall either my mind or body to the school; I am out of it and disposed for full holiday.
Charlotte Bronte
#9. Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.
Aldus Manutius
#10. Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.
Baba Hari Dass
#12. Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.
Roy Bennett
#13. Contribute to charitable projects like the printing of spiritual books so that they can be sold at a lower price. Poor people will then be able to buy and read them. In this way we can help to cultivate spiritual culture in them also.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#14. Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn't lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.
Charles R. Swindoll
#15. Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper, and Tossing of the mind. Cultivate - Cosmic Love, Forgiveness and Patience. Hate - Lust, Anger, and Pride.
Sivananda
#16. Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.
John Singer Sargent
#17. Habits are learned. You can cultivate good habits to replace old ones. Keep working on these habits until they become second nature to you.
Amanda Hopkins
#18. I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?
Ian Astbury
#20. If you cultivate inner peace, flowers of happiness will grow in your garden to spread the fragrance of peace all over the world.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Cultivate the habit of being grateful ... and ... give thanks continuously.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. Refusing to rate what we perceive helps us to cultivate feelings of acceptance rather than judgement, as we stop demanding that life be other than it is.
Sarah Napthali
#23. The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.
Marshall Field
#24. The interests of the States ... ought to be made joint in every possible instance in order to cultivate the idea of our being one nation, and to multiply the instances in which the people shall look up to Congress as their head.
Thomas Jefferson
#25. I was craving a chance at the lifelong fantasy, and I had that. That was a one-off thing. I was looking for an experience, Eric, not wanting to cultivate a habit.
Nikki Sex
#26. Good company is important, it helps to cultivate good qualities.
Sathya Sai Baba
#27. The theme of luck comes up a lot. It's something I thought about before, why some people are lucky and some people aren't lucky. It seems like some people you meet can sort of cultivate luck, and I've always been fascinated by that.
Patrick DeWitt
#28. Do you live in a mine field or a garden? When we live in a minefield mentality, we explode with the weeds of worry, doubt, fear, lack and limitation. Choose to cultivate your inner garden!
Michael Beckwith
#29. The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.
Guy Finley
#30. After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#31. Cultivate the attitude of gratitude. The attitude of gratitude is when you are grateful for every breath of life.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#32. Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like a garden, overgrown with evil and with sin.
Robert Jeffress
#33. It is up to you to cultivate your field of mind in order to grow golden crops.
Debasish Mridha
#34. Strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate through daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions.
Robin S. Sharma
#35. In Zen we study the will. We learn how to cultivate it, to accumulate will. We use it to direct our actions, and we don't overuse it or abuse it - that's a waste.
Frederick Lenz
#36. It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose, which it truly has.
Maria Montessori
#37. I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.
David Duval
#38. She didn't use the misery of others to cultivate her own smugness, true, but at least I didn't go about eating all their food.
Martin Amis
#39. Today, I deliberately practice open-mindedness. I cultivate a willingness to experience subtle realms.
Julia Cameron
#40. Cultivate your mind - it will blossom beyond your expectations
Robin S. Sharma
#41. But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
George Cadbury
#42. Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
William Barclay
#43. The second essential incarnational habit we hope to cultivate is simply listening. Listening is watching and sensitively responding to the unspoken and spoken needs of Sojourners in ways that demonstrate sincere interest.
Hugh Halter
#44. Virtues can be developed through study and contemplation or, as this sutra suggests, through recognizing their presence in others. In other words, we should cultivate the habit of celebrating virtues wherever we recognize them. The more we rejoice in them, the sooner they will be ours.
Jaganath Carrera
#45. The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through.
Robert M. Pirsig
#46. Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
Stephen Covey
#47. Cultivate your garden. Do not depend upon teachers to educate you ... follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony.
Will Durant
#48. Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman
#49. A person cannot learn to be a photographer. He can only cultivate what he already has. I try to make people aware that they have something very precious to cultivate.
Ruth Bernhard
#50. Like sacrifices, prayer is intended to change man, not God. Its purpose is to cultivate a contrite heart, to promote feelings of humility and inadequacy in man, whilst encouraging reliance on Divine assistance.
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
#51. The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to cultivate a mental approach to the game that will enable you to shrug off the bad days, keep patient and know in your heart that sooner or later you will be back on top.
Arnold Palmer
#52. I know I can only do as much as I can do. Although I have so many ideas of my own, I'm very interested in helping to cultivate and encourage some promising new artists. But there are a lot of people and, unfortunately, a very small window.
Tyler Perry
#53. In front of us there is an immense garden of words and non-words, a serre, that is, a greenhouse in which are preserved by my care so many things of speech you have given me while leaving me free to cultivate them.
Helene Cixous
#54. Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but a delicate plant, that groweth slowly and tenderly, needing much pains to cultivate it, much care to guard it, much time to mature it, in our untoward soil, in this world's unkindly weather.
Isaac Barrow
#55. Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.
Jean-Dominique Bauby
#56. Are you scared?' asked Mr. Ibis.
'Not really.'
'Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are the appropriate feelings for the situation at hand.
Neil Gaiman
#57. Most adults don't sing anymore. We have to break that, and start singing the name of the Almighty One, try to cultivate the emotions. We have to elevate our emotions to the maximum, to the limit, and that then turns into spiritual bliss.
Dharma Mittra
#58. To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.
John Burdett
#59. Inside you resides an ocean of creative mind, which is bigger than all the land in this world. So cultivate your land to produce all the goods you and your friends need.
Debasish Mridha
#60. She'd faced some hard knocks in life - one really hard one five years ago - and had managed to cultivate a protective shell for herself. But like a Godiva truffle, she was only hard in a thin outer layer. Her insides were still as tender as ever.
Becky Wade
#61. It's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.
Randy Alcorn
#62. The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry.
Nina Easton
#63. If you want to be a person with a large vision, you must cultivate the habit of doing the little things well.
Charles R. Swindoll
#64. We cannot carve or forcibly preserve
or cultivate belief. If it will grow, it grows
as we do - mostly after we have fallen
Jennifer Clarvoe
#65. We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.
Daniel Goleman
#66. A man needs an allegiance. He must have a cause and an identity that lays claim over him and compels him to pick up a plow to cultivate it or a sword to defend it.
Cliff Graham
#67. The conventional, and painfully artificial, separation of the human realm from the natural other is bound to perish, albeit over a period of time, until we are obliged to learn how to cultivate our gardens under the most demanding conditions.
John Burnside
#68. Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
Aberjhani
#69. Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid.
Sylvia Plath
#70. Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.
John Sterling
#71. [A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation ... is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.
Thomas Jefferson
#72. I enjoy encouraging and inspiring people to pursue their purpose in the arts. To help cultivate and develop their instrument.
Tasha Smith
#73. Or we may be caught in a cycle of frustration because we realize we are split from our authentic selves but cannot figure out how to cultivate and nourish our relationship with ourselves.
Massimilla Harris
#74. Your dream was given to you. If someone else can't see it for you, that's fine, it was given to you and not them. It's your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it!
Les Brown
#75. Every reaction is an opportunity to cultivate a pearl - a beautiful truth that will illuminate the way forwards.
Pollyanna Darling
#76. To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.
Ho Chi Minh
#77. To cultivate compassion, try to remember that others are doing the best they can, just like you, and that when someone does something abusive, they are getting something that they feel is positive from the experience.
Sharon Gannon
#78. Rise above ... cultivate the light you have within you, and it will shine through as a radiant expression that will be seen by others.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#79. When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds.
James Redfield
#80. In any moment we can learn to let go of hatred and fear. We can rest in peace, love, and forgiveness. It is never too late. Yet to sustain love we need to develop practices that cultivate and strengthen the natural compassion within us.
Jack Kornfield
#81. Life is forgiving and amazing. Embrace it. Cultivate it. Make it yours!
Amanda Mosher
#82. To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
Malcolm Forbes
#83. From the late David Broder on down, the most powerful and influential of the great Washington columnists and journalists tend to cultivate the driest, least lively voices possible.
Alex Pareene
#84. Think about it: everybody you know, everyone that you meet, also know about 250 people. So every time you cultivate a relationship with one new person, you have actually expanded your personal inventory by 250 people - every single time.
Bob Burg
#85. I am trying to cultivate the notion that constantly misplacing one's cell phone is a charming eccentricity ... my children aren't buying it.
Alice McDermott
#86. Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.
Norman Vincent Peale
#87. This is an age of science ... All important fields of activity from the breeding of bees to the administration of an empire, call for an understanding of the spirit and the technique of modern science. The nations that do not cultivate the sciences cannot hold their own.
Wickliffe Rose
#88. Success is a habit not an isolated event. Be passionate about success to cultivate it.
Debasish Mridha
#89. My hope always when I am working with a new client is that I will cultivate a relationship with them: develop a dialogue and a way of working. This makes it easy for a star to trust you.
Brad Goreski
#90. Relationships with your enemies; you need to cultivate those, because: Only true enemies stab you in the front.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#91. In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#92. Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.
Reese Witherspoon
#93. Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
Benjamin Disraeli
#94. Raise you awareness and cultivate your uniqueness.
Amit Ray
#95. Holy name alone is sufficient to take you back home back to godhead. However to cultivate the mood of surrender You need a Guru.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#96. I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships.
Ivan Illich
#97. I went into the world confident my tea training would open many doors. And I did particularly well with the Irish and fellow Nova Scotians over 60. But this only got me so far. It took a long time to cultivate the tricks of easy social interaction.
Lynn Coady
#98. To cultivate the sacredness and sanctity of each day, serve others in some way.
Robin S. Sharma
#99. Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.
Andrew Zolli
#100. There's no avoiding it: the patterns we cultivate shape the person we each become.
Brad Lomenick
