Top 100 Quotes About Thrives
#1. Nothing remains idle and thrives. Life needs a moving force to prevent the devastating effects of stagnancy. That is why life employs change.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#2. Competing to be the best feeds on imitation. Competing to be unique thrives on innovation.
Joan Magretta
#3. For a consumer society thrives by stoking unquenchable desires into unsustainable cravings and fanning them with an inflated rage for rights. The restlessness it creates by providing false satisfactions and deadening true desires simultaneously fuels the economy and destroys happiness.
Os Guinness
#4. I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out!
Anton Szandor LaVey
#5. Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect.
Robin Day
#6. The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.
Jose Rizal
#7. What differentiated us was our perception of our mutual reality, which made no difference.
Mie Hansson
#8. For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
Paracelsus
#9. Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to resist. If the terrorist succeeds, he has won and the whole of free society has lost.
Margaret Thatcher
#10. My sculpture thrives in the context of the city, interacting with people in the course of their daily lives.
Janet Echelman
#11. A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.
Ronald Reagan
#12. Creativity thrives on a consistent diet of challenges and opportunities, which are often one and the same.
Lee Clow
#13. I think respectful conflict is intrinsic to the spirit of literature. It reminds us that literary history is living and evolving and thrives on us being active participants.
Matthew Pearl
#14. Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.
Richard Whately
#15. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#16. Music becomes flesh and thrives in a new world, a new man . . .
He, the last-born, son of music and love, shall arise in triumph over an ample land, prophet of a soul yet more ample . . .
Kostis Palamas
#17. I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?
Brandon Boyd
#18. This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and thrives. The strongest periods of economic growth in the 20th century were also times when incomes rose across the board.
John Podesta
#19. Sin thrives in the dungeon, but slap it on the table for all to see, and it withers rather quickly.
Ted Dekker
#20. I ain't scared to lend a hand
I ain't scared to clench it either
Mie Hansson
#21. I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.
Edward Hirsch
#22. While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives.
Phillip Adams
#23. If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#24. Take care, take care. This city thrives! It's money gives you wings to soar. But it is a yoke on your shoulders and you would do well to take note of the bruise around your neck.
Jessie Burton
#26. The surface of Amsterdam thrives on these mutual acts of surveillance, the neighborly smothering of a person's spirit.
Jessie Burton
#27. Love can exist alongside duty. Love thrives on duty. And respect.
Fawzia Koofi
#28. 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
#29. I have created a world in which life that supports life thrives and life that destroys life disappears.
Dana Petrovic
#30. Do not judge a woman on her knees: you never know how tall she is when she stands.
Mie Hansson
#31. I believe America thrives when the middle class thrives.
Hillary Clinton
#32. I'm not the kind of person who thrives in 'the scene.'
Blake Shelton
#33. Spiritual growth thrives in the midst of our problems, not in their absence. Spiritual growth occurs in the trenches of life, not in the classroom.
Mike Yaconelli
#34. I think one who thrives on death may be defeated by life.
Elswyth, from A Precarious Journey Into Magic
Jenna Lindsey
#35. We have a very real enemy who thrives on our silence. He doesn't want us to be in fellowship, sharing our hearts and seeking wisdom on how to live lives that glorify God in spite of the darkness we feel.
Angie Smith
#36. Being a Junglepreneur is about the ability to build a business in any location and then ensure that it survives and thrives by all legal means.
David Oludotun Fasanya
#37. Even in the stifling bosom of the town,
A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms
That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd,
That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint,
Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well
He cultivates.
William Cowper
#39. Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.
Robert Kennedy
#40. Somewhere out there is a theory that would explain my empirical observations, and this theory has yet to be discovered. Mathematics thrives on such mysteries.
Henri Darmon
#41. Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.
Ozzie Zehner
#42. The Church is the dwelling place of God in the Person of the Holy Ghost.
Where the Church thrives, people are blessed and progress is evident. Where there is no Church, people feed their babies to crocodiles and roam naked in the jungles.
Oliver B. Greene
#43. Cupbearer, fill the bowl with blood, not wine --
And if you lack the heart's rich blood, take mine.
Love thrives on inextinguishable pain;
Which tears the soul, then knits the threads again.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#44. If you forget to water your creative spirit every day, it can begin to shrivel just as a new plant will. Your spirit thrives when the right amount of attention is given to it and so does creativity.
Pam Carriker
#45. You need to bring your awakening into city life. Bring it into fast-paced complexity where it thrives.
John De Ruiter
#46. 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
#47. The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows in grace. Grace in the heart as certainly improves and advances, as a tree thrives in a kindly and well watered soil.
Gardiner Spring
#48. Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
Kenneth Rexroth
#49. So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Aaron Copland
#50. 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
#51. The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson
#52. Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.
J.G. Holland
#53. Pop music thrives on repetition. You know a song's a hit when you've heard it so often that you'll be happy never to hear it again.
James Surowiecki
#54. The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives.
Eric Schmidt
#55. It thrives on secrecy, silence, and judgment. If we can share our experience of shame with someone who responds with empathy, shame can't survive. We
Brene Brown
#56. Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.
Violet Trefusis
#57. A system that sets people against each other fundamentally misunderstands the dynamics that drive achievement. Education thrives on partnership and collaboration - within schools, between schools, and with other groups and organizations.
Ken Robinson
#58. Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
Caroline Knapp
#59. Love thrives on trust ad withers in its absence.
Marty Rubin
#60. With a click of the 'Post Comment' button, Netizens can quickly bring down the level of dialogue. Bloggers lob zingers, commenters trade barbs, and bullies target kids in the cyber schoolyard. Mudslinging - a time-honored political tradition - thrives on the Web.
Willow Bay
#61. Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.
W. Somerset Maugham
#62. A Culture of clear consistent communication and connection is the foundation of a high performance team that thrives and flourishes.
Tony Dovale
#63. Being an actor is wonderful and it's a lot of fun, but eventually you look old and you can't fit this or that. It's important to have other skills, be able to do other things, and to really learn how this business works and what it thrives on.
Gabourey Sidibe
#65. All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
John Berridge
#66. It is not always the highest talent that thrives best. Mediocrity, with tact, will outweigh talent oftentimes.
Joseph Cook
#67. The thing that hunts me now thrives on terror. My terror. I fear he will come for me. I fear he will come for anyone who knows me.
Christina Dodd
#68. Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.
David W. Earle
#69. Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.
L. Ron Hubbard
#70. I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I admire immensely. When I see an animal that thrives in the garbage, I feel relief; in our urban environment, other animals are dying out.
Isabella Rossellini
#71. A society should not forget that it thrives on the ideas and performance of the talented among its citizens.
Amish Tripathi
#73. There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.
Lancelot Hogben
#74. She seemed to him both powerful and delicate, like a wild thing that thrives in its place but withers when stolen away.
Eowyn Ivey
#75. Happiness comes from growing what thrives, not merely survives.
Janet Macunovich
#76. When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.
Steven Johnson
#77. In a world where competition thrives, comparison reigns and wants increase endlessly, satisfaction becomes infeasible lacking clarity.
Chirag Tulsiani
#78. Satyagraha thrives on repression till at last the repressor is tired of it and the object of satyagraha is gained.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. Fear thrives strongest; there is no telling how little we would be without having suffered fear. An intrinsic characteristic of humanity is the tendency to give in to fear. No fear is lost, but its hiding places are a riddle. Perhaps, of all things, fear is the one that changes least.
Elias Canetti
#80. Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.
Tina Brown
#81. The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a stable social structure thrives not on triumphs but on reconciliations.
Henry A. Kissinger
#82. The war on drugs thrives on ignorance of drugs and misplaced faith in the power of the law to regulate human vice.
Tom Feiling
#83. To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.
Alanis Morissette
#84. I like the idea of an open, international London that thrives on attracting hard-working, talented people but has the confidence to tell them they must play by the same rules as everyone else.
Mohsin Hamid
#85. Keeps the Flare at bay because the virus thrives in your brain. Eats at it, destroys it. If there's not a lot of activity, the virus weakens.
James Dashner
#86. The Dream thrives on generalization, on limiting the number of possible questions, on privileging immediate answers.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#87. America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
Edmund White
#88. Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment.
Marilu Henner
#89. Money said, "I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.
Frank Herbert
#90. The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.
George Polya
#92. It is the nature of the idea to be communicated, written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass it craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows stronger from being stepped on.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#93. Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.
Jim Babka
#94. The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.
Kedar Joshi
#95. The field of asking is fundamentally improvisational. It thrives not in the creation of rules and etiquette but in the smashing of that etiquette.
Which is to say: there are no rules.
Or, rather, there are plenty of rules, but they ask, on bended knees, to be broken.
Amanda Palmer
#96. The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.
Murray Rothbard
#97. He talks about despair, how it thrives in silence.
Gayle Forman
#98. It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.
Douglas Adams
#99. When you live afraid of your neighbor, the monster you should most walk in terror of thrives.
Ellen Hopkins
#100. Life has a peculiar habit
once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.
David Gerrold