Top 100 We Thrive Quotes
#1. My kind do not spend their days at craft or art. Our deepest desire is not for the making of a thing, nor for the thing itself. Rather, we thrive on the skills of those who make. We steal that time and that power, and we turn it to our own souls, and that is how we grow.
E.K. Johnston
#2. History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.
Jean-Henri Fabre
#3. Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#4. The precept that location is key to the success of a business applies to art, and even to life itself: we thrive or wither depending on how nourishing our environment is.
Yann Martel
#5. We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.
Sarah Lewis
#6. Men need to be needed. When we are needed, we feel powerful. We thrive on helping a woman who needs us.
C.T.
#7. Every time life calls to us, it is the voice of God and the voice of our very hearts. When we listen, we thrive. When we don't, we do what we must to survive.
Tehya Sky
#9. I see opportunities in all my businesses. And the reason is simple. We thrive on countries that are urbanizing.
Louis R. Chenevert
#10. In this shifting landscape, we may tend to forget "what the old folks say." Most of us probably now realize that our ancestors did indeed have it right! Their common-sense ways allowed them to get through the worst of conditions throughout history and still we thrive from their bold undertakings.
Deborah L. Parker
#11. Without challenges, the human body will soften. We thrive when we push our boundaries, reach goals, and blast personal records. We perform better, we look better, and we feel alive.
Dan John
#12. Master Rahl guide us. Master Rahl teach us. Master Rahl protect us. In your light we thrive. In your mercy we are sheltered. In your wisdom we are humbled." She put her heart and soul into the words. "We live only to serve. Our lives are yours.
Terry Goodkind
#13. Solitude. It is way underrated in our world of writing. We stay busy. We act busy. We thrive on busy. The truth is there is a lot of beauty that lives in the solitude. Quiet is not the enemy. Quiet is necessary for brains to not self-destruct.
Bonnie Baker
#14. What we thrive on is hatred and violence; if we were a peaceable people we would have peace tomorrow.
Henry Miller
#15. We thrive when we are pulled by the future, not pushed by the past.
Crystal Kadakia
#16. Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.
Margaret Atwood
#18. And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on.
Glenn Tipton
#19. In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.
Julia Cameron
#20. By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in.
Ron Conway
#21. God's heart ... is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.
Mary E. DeMuth
#22. We are created with life's inherent sense of order and urge to thrive.
Deborah Sandella
#23. You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?
Barbara Boxer
#24. Life is not fair, but it is what we have to deal with. And we are going to deal with it so that we can live. No, so that we can thrive.
Jessica Park
#25. We are not here to get to tomorrow. We are here for today, to bloom today. We were made to Thrive!
Mark Hall
#26. We spring from one great tree of life; when the root of the tree is watered with love, we all thrive.
Janet Autherine
#27. Fear, doubt, and lack are things we must talk about to emerge as associations that thrive for years to come.
Holly Duckworth
#28. We know what makes babies smart and happy and thrive. It's having human beings who are dedicated to caring for them - human beings who are well supported, not stressed out and not poor.
Alison Gopnik
#29. I have to choose to thrive, even in the pain. Even when it's tough. ... We can do this. God has not brought us this far to let us down now.
Joanna Gaines
#30. The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.
Brad Holland
#31. When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.
Ann Wagner
#32. By actively thinking about the implications a space has on its inhabitants, we can create great experiences for those who enter. Make Space is an articulate account about the importance of space; how we think about it, build it and thrive in it.
James P Hackett
#33. Part of what I love about novels and dogs is that they are so beautifully oblivious to economic concerns. We serve them, and in return they thrive. It's not their responsibility to figure out where the rent is coming from.
Ann Patchett
#34. Our carbon emissions have to eventually go to zero. We have to. Otherwise we're never going to have a stable climate and that's what our goal is for human civilization to thrive, a stable climate. We don't want one that's hotter, we don't want one that's colder, we want one that's stable.
Katharine Hayhoe
#35. When our young people can find meaningful work, we all benefit. This youth jobs strategy would help connect youth with careers they can build on and equip them with the skills they need to thrive in today's global economy.
Kathleen Wynne
#36. When anxiety drives our decisions, we cannot grow spiritually, emotionally, or mentally. When we open up our hearts and give to others, we give ourselves room to grow and thrive!
Jen Lilley
#37. We can thrive and bloom if we are rooted in our love of the Savior.
Quentin L. Cook
#38. We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes - one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.
Stephen Jay Gould
#39. But we live on the cusp of a Renaissance in consciousness of who we truly are and, thus, we can now begin to thrive in this exciting age of our humanity's journey toward a greater life and a more fundamentally intelligent evolution of our species.
Martha Char Love
#40. There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
Robin Cook
#41. I think again about the Tree of Life. A wonderful notion that we as people are all stemmed and thrive from a tree springing life from branches reaching out to help our blood flow and providing oxygen to breathe.
Nicholas A. McGirr
#42. Advertising and marketing philosophies that thrive on emphasizing 'natural' differences don't stay in the realm of advertising and marketing
they spill into how we justify sexism and racism at every life stage.
Andi Zeisler
#43. It's wonderful to move forward technologically, but we cannot forget that we are human beings who thrive on relationships, who thrive on interconnectivity, who thrive on sharing your feelings and emotions.
Goldie Hawn
#44. I am so grateful to be here on this awesome planet with it's diverse life - everything we need to not just survive but to thrive. I am excited to continually learn more about it, and always curious to see what is going to come up next.
Jay Woodman
#45. How we respond to tragedy is the hallmark of character. Suffering a great loss places us at a spiritual milepost. The wind of our souls can either sour and wither or rejoice and thrive.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#46. Ladies, stock and tend your hive,
Trifle not at thirty-five;
For, howe'er we boast and strive,
Life declines from thirty-five;
He that ever hopes to thrive
Must begin by thirty-five.
Samuel Johnson
#47. We all thrive to achieve something. Few fails early; many wins late. Why is struggle compared when success is overrated?
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#48. Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts can not only survive but thrive as they move outward to explore this new world.
Ellen Stofan
#49. Good to get the truth out into the air," Ham said. "Everything grows best in oxygen and sunlight except secrets and guilt and regrets. They like the dank spaces. Drag them out into the light and they fail to thrive." We
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#50. Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.
William Morris
#51. The theme that runs through all my books is connection. Connection - physical and non-physical - with other humans, and connection with nature are necessary for our well-being. Without it, we are depressed, lonely, and fail to thrive.
Mary Alice Monroe
#52. 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
#53. I knew the biggest priority was to create a winning culture in which every member could thrive and excel. This meant we would not only have to create the right culture for the team but also for the rest of the organization.
Jon Gordon
#54. But part of what I love about both novels and dogs is that they are so beautifully oblivious to economic concerns. We serve them, and in return they thrive.
Ann Patchett
#55. I hope my work contributes to understanding long-term patterns of human behavior and how we survive, thrive, or fail during times of environmental, social, and economic crisis.
Sarah Parcak
#56. When you try to inoculate yourself from the pain, you end up inoculating yourself from the love and you need the love to thrive. You have to be willing to realize that people hurt people - good or bad, it's just what we do.
Michelle N. Onuorah
#57. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help ... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack Obama
#58. In a perfect world perhaps we would all see more clearly. But this is not a perfect world, and it is enough to hope that each of us will share our talents, and find the balance between greed and benevolence that will allow us to live and thrive and help the world around us grow.
Kent Nerburn
#59. As our planet faces seemingly insurmountable odds, we must find new ways to survive and thrive together.
Nikhil Advani
#60. Like snowflakes in a blizzard, each of us is unique. Within each of us, there is a common desire to heal and thrive despite our injury. None of us has the power to change our past, but we each have the capacity to change how the past affects us today.
Dennis Randall
#61. Love is a beautiful, wonderful, and even sacred thing, but until it arrives, shouldn't we give ourselves permission to thrive?
Mandy Hale
#62. As a former NFL athlete, my quality of play on the field was in direct correlation to how I took care of my body. Bulletproof has many practical principles and tips on how, as men, we can thrive and not just survive as we get older. This is a must read.
Devon McDonald
#63. We need a mobilized and active civil society using its purchasing power to demand sustainable products and practices. It is also essential that governments commit to the future, creating fiscal and regulatory conditions for sustainable policies to thrive.
Guilherme Leal
#64. But while the urban tribe helps us survive, it does not help us thrive. The urban tribe may bring us soup when we are sick, but it is the people we hardly know - those who never make it into our tribe - who will swiftly and dramatically change our lives for the better.
Meg Jay
#65. This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'
Marissa Mayer
#66. We'll not only survive,
we'll thrive,
be positively alive
with a little more space between us.
Robert Leland Taylor
#67. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
#68. We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
Golda Meir
#69. Despite the obstacle, when a strong passion within yearns for life, begs to thrive, we must find a way to release it. To set free that which creates, that which inspires, for passion is the driving force behind all that is great.
Rico Lamoureux
#70. As we settle into 2013, I predict this: We'll see companies that promote this shift from private ownership thrive. More people will be able to access things they simply don't need to own, and they'll save money and live better, cleaner, green lives doing it.
Lynn Jurich
#71. Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
Abdallah II Of Jordan
#72. Of course it's dangerous. But it's a lot more dangerous for all of us if we don't do it. Even in a conquering army there are casualties. Safety is not the issue when we look at the Great Commission. The purpose of the church cannot be to survive, or even to thrive, but to serve.
Brother Andrew
#73. We are living in a world that is in the late stage of a Caterpillar. It is very important to let go of the old and start to gravitate to the new because we are leaving behind a world that is no longer sustainable and moving into a world in which we can thrive.
Bruce H. Lipton
#74. As a society, we know very well how to be unwell and miserable and so little about how to thrive.
Shawn Achor
#75. We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we're the same.
Maya Angelou
#76. Rethink Your Success Mindset: Times are getting tougher. We need tougher mindsets to ensure that we go beyond survive to thrive.
Tony Dovale
#77. We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.
George W. Bush
#78. We can love God out of emotion; but when we can love Him out of emotion, knowledge and strength, our faith will thrive through all things.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#79. Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?
Arianna Huffington
#80. America still has the right stuff to thrive. We still have the most creative, diverse, innovative culture and open society - in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.
Thomas Friedman
#81. I believe in people getting what's coming to them but don't hold grudges either. We all hurt people, fail & hopefully grow from adversity. Basically, eat shit & thrive
Dane Cook
#82. We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs.
Robert Reich
#83. I think Jamaica would thrive if we promote agriculture as a way to bring people here.
Chris Blackwell
#84. 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
#85. And as we work together, we will build a better America! As we work together, we will bring the middle class to thrive again! As we work together, we will make sure that everybody has the ladder of opportunity to climb!
Thomas Perez
#86. Because extroversion lines up so well with American values, we introverts often deprive ourselves of what we most enjoy and thrive on. So, for all of you who draw energy from inside, behind, underneath, or away from it all, welcome home.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#87. Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.
Art Buchwald
#88. We're trying to find a tourism model that allows communities to thrive while business prospers.
Jochen Zeitz
#89. Life is not a test administered by ourselves or a higher authority, and we're not in form to learn lessons. We're here to thrive, to celebrate being our authentic selves until it literally kills us.
S. Kelley Harrell
#90. The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.
Robert Menzies
#91. We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
Naveen Jain
#92. Forever resent this body is not mine,
when do we forget calculating to thrive? (Su Shih)
Sung Yee Poon
#93. We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.
Henry Cloud
#94. Being an actor is just like being any other sort of self-employed person - we're all just happy to have a job in the first place, but we also thrive off the uncertainty of it.
Martin Freeman
#95. The Quantum Age takes us far beyond the Information Age to a way of living in which we delight in uncertainty, thrive in entanglement, and flourish with an awareness of many possibilities.
Cynthia Sue Larson
#96. We are a way of the universe knowing itself.
Carl Sagan
#97. That is honor's scorn
Which challenges itself as honor's born
And is not like the sire. Honors thrive
When rather from our acts we them derive
Than our foregoers.
William Shakespeare
#98. When we can build community based on truth and authenticity, rather than masks, false perfection, and being phoney, we heal, connect, and thrive.
Lissa Rankin
#99. There is at present in the United States a powerful activist movement that is anti-intellectual, anti-science, and anti-technology. If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the Earth, we must depend on the continued revolutions brought about by science.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
#100. Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive.
Hope Mirrlees
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