Top 100 The Root Quotes
#1. I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
Frances Moore Lappe
#2. Thus it is that "Some things are increased by being diminished, others are diminished by being increased." What others have taught, I also teach; verily, I will make it the root of my teaching.
Laozi
#3. Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#4. Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Miguel De Unamuno
#5. At the root of all real experience of grace and true
Andrew Murray
#6. The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache ... This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.
Stanley Kubrick
#7. Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.
Rick Warren
#8. I have never really thought of him as a person, either ... A guy whose strings were broken, who didn't feel the root of his leaves of grass connected to the field, a guy who was cracked. Like me.
John Green
#9. But there is a more virulent strain at the root of Western Lysenkoism today. Scientists, like Holdren and Michael Mann, can be leftist ideologues as well, posing to manipulate and mislead for the good of the cause. Bottom line: green is the new red. That is why Obama at root is so committed to it.
Peter Ferrara
#10. All moods have a cause. If you change the root cause, then your mood will follow suit. Furthermore, mood is a choice. It may not be a completely free choice, but you can choose which mood you spend the most time in.
Liz Miller
#12. Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
Mencius
#13. Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life.
Zhi Gang Sha
#14. History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.
Thomas Carlyle
#15. I appreciate health care that gets to the root cause of our symptoms and promotes wellness, rather than the one-size-fits-all drug-based approach to treating disease. I love maintaining an optimal quality of life - naturally.
Suzanne Somers
#16. From the beginning of time, we've had financial crises. People always blame the banks and for good reason. When you look for the root causes, they're almost always failed government policies.
Henry Paulson
#17. The feeling of distress is the root of benevolence, therefore a benevolent man is ever mindful of those who are suffering and in distress.
Inazo Nitobe
#18. If we hope for any kind of lasting peace or balance
during transition, we must go for the root.
Ngina Otiende
#19. The biblical counselor must always remember that the ROOT problem is deeper than skin; it is sin. The ultimate cure is not culture, but Christ.
James MacDonald
#21. Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satan's disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adam's lapse was passion.
Sufyan Al-Thawri
#22. Few pay attention to the histories and the root pictures words can release. These neglected qualities are there, however, and the poets have always found them a self-delighting source of excitement.
John Ciardi
#23. The root of the whole evil lay, particularly in Schonerer's opinion, in the fact that the directing body of the Catholic Church was not in Germany, and that for this very reason alone it was hostile to the interests of our nationality.
Adolf Hitler
#24. Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
Lech Walesa
#25. Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James Freeman Clarke
#26. Not being who we think we are is the root of our dilemmas. (Or, more accurately, believing that we are who we think we are, and not noticing that we are not, is the root.)
Jack Elias
#27. At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
Robert Farrar Capon
#29. Family is the root of all that is good in our lives, and I am so grateful for mine.
Ivana Trump
#30. Indeed, she often wondered if she were dead, or dying from the inside out, and that was the root of her calm, the reason she could surrender her character.
Gregory Maguire
#31. It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.
Eric Hoffer
#32. Go to the root of the problems of people and discover ways to save them
Sunday Adelaja
#33. My struggle will be the root of my success story and my patience will soon fill my cup of prosperity...My tears are temporary.-Lekisha
Lekisha Lyles
#34. Duplication may be the root of all evil in software. Many principles and practices have been created for the purpose of controlling or eliminating it.
Robert C. Martin
#35. The thing about those conditions [anxiety and depression] that sucks the worst is that you don't address the root cause, so you never see it coming. What's worse is when you don't even KNOW what the root cause is, you can never fix the problem. So that's what's really scary.
Matty Mullins
#36. There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs.
Asa Gray
#37. Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.
Patrick Rothfuss
#38. Modern western man has some basic misconceptions about the nature of happiness. The origin of the word is instructive: happiness stems from the root verb to happen, which implies that our happiness is what happens.
Robert A. Johnson
#39. The root of our disobedience is essentially failing to remember who he is. And the reverse is true - for as long as we remember who he is, we will serve him wholeheartedly, radically, and joyfully.
Timothy Keller
#40. The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.
Dalai Lama
#41. Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns
or dollars. Take your choice
there is no other.
Ayn Rand
#42. Fear is the root of all evil. Better live a single day fearlessly than living a long but fearful life. Especially, never fear another human being. Fear is the root of all relationship problems.
His Holiness Divas
#43. The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.
Stuart Wilde
#45. God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
Brennan Manning
#46. What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease.
Ron Rosedale
#47. The root of all of it: he's never lost. He still has both his parents, and any kind of loss he ever went through was his choice, which is always a different kind of loss than the kind that's ripped from you.
Vanessa Garcia
#48. Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good and evil too, to beauty or anything else. I know that this is the root of all human troubles, all of them. Indifferent to that knowledge, too. Nothing got written.
Jack Kerouac
#49. The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. A poor man who, in his heart, worships the idea of being rich is more vulnerable to its evils than a rich man who has a heart to use it all for the Lord.
Criss Jami
#50. The stronghold of the contemplation of Christ's glory affords the soul rest, for it will be made evident that our troubles grow on the root of an over-valuation of temporal things. The mind is its own greatest troubler.
John Owen
#51. Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation ... We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life ... life is a gift not a threat.
Pope Benedict XVI
#52. Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.
Fidel Castro
#53. Seventy-six percent of the American people say we have a spiritual problem in our country. That's great, because now they understand the root of the problem is not that we haven't passed enough laws; rather, the root of the problem is in terms of our social value system.
Charles Colson
#54. To kill the grass you must also remove the root
Pol Pot
#55. Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil
Lil' Wayne
#56. I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
Rain
#57. A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness
Dalai Lama
#58. We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble.
Alan Watts
#60. The egg creams of Avenue A in New York and the root beer float ... are among the high points of American gastronomic inventiveness.
Mark Kurlansky
#61. Feelings are relative. And at the root, they're all the same, even if they grow from different experiences and exist on different scales.
Becky Chambers
#62. Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.
George A. Sheehan
#63. Among the many things that religious tradition holds in store for us is a legacy of wonder. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin. Modern
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#64. God does not care what good you did, but why you did it. He does not grade the fruit but probes the core and tests the root.
Angelus Silesius
#65. Over-population is the 'cause of drive-by shootings' and other social ills, but the root of the problem is Christianity, which posits that people are more important than sea otters and elephants.
Ted Turner
#66. It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
Le Corbusier
#67. What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.
Bruce Lee
#68. The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear a golden and generous fruitage.
Orville Dewey
#69. That Solidarity was a religious movement no one, least of all the Soviets, can deny. In November 1981, Pravda denounced 'religious fanaticism' as a grave challenge to socialism; failure to contain it, Pravda said, was at the root of the problems in Poland.
Charles Colson
#70. The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.
Pema Chodron
#71. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau
#72. Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It's also the root of a lot of bad art.
Michael Gungor
#73. Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#74. The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem.
Suze Orman
#75. Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.
Ben Affleck
#76. Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.
Philip Greenspun
#77. Bloodraven is the root of all our woes, the white worm gnawimg at the heart of the realm.
George R R Martin
#78. God is Love. Love is the deepest depth, the essence of his nature, at the root of all his being.
George MacDonald
#79. The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.
Mencius
#80. We'd like to believe that by discussing what has occurred will change things. Until now, here's a mental illness that must be dealt with by going to the root.
Benjamin Janey
#81. There is Shadow and there is Substance, and this is the root of all things. Of Substance, there is only Amber, the real city, upon the real Earth, which contains everything. Of Shadow, there is an infinitude of things. Every possibility exists somewhere as a Shadow of the real.
Roger Zelazny
#82. Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.
Evel Knievel
#83. We come from God. As the tree from the root and the stream from the spring; that's why we should always be in contact with Him, as the trunk from the root. Because the stream dries up when it is separated from the spring and the tree dies when is uprooted.
Pythagoras
#84. Anyone from abroad will tell you that it is the class system that really lies at the root of our problems, economic and industrial. The House of Lords symbolises that.
Tony Benn
#85. For decades, [Toyota] used the practice of asking why five times in succession as a means of getting to the root of a particular manufacturing problem.
Anonymous
#87. The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world.
Thomas Merton
#88. As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.
Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.
Zarina Bibi
#89. You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
Boris Pasternak
#90. The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
Ludwig Von Mises
#91. I am a progressive who gets things done. And the root of that word, progressive, is progress.
Hillary Clinton
#92. Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.
John Ortberg
#93. I think that the root of Willful Ignorance, is Fear. We'll return to that in a minute. But the root of Fear, is Simple Ignorance, at least I think that our original Fear is rooted in simply not understanding the World around us: not knowing.
Steve Bivans
#94. Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.
Tara Brach
#95. The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted ... Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#96. Words are the vibrations of nature. Therefore, beautiful words create beautiful nature. Ugly words create ugly nature. This is the root of the universe.
Masaru Emoto
#97. the ability for the same reality to vary drastically between different people was probably the root cause for some of history's greatest wars. If everyone on Earth experienced reality in the same way, there would be very little to disagree about. But
Jeremy Robinson
#99. Money isn't the root of all evil; the love of money isn't the root of all evil; the NEED for money is the root of all evil.
Dorothy Koomson
#100. Authentic leadership is at the root of cultures of great innovation, engagement, outstanding client experiences, and growth.
Henna Inam
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