Cultivate Quotes

• Cultivate the root; the leaves and branches will take care of themselves.

  

  Confucius
  • Care
  • Branches
  • Cultivate

• I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.

  

  Alexander Grothendieck
  • Trying
  • Research
  • Cultivate

• The ally we must cultivate is the part of our enemy which knows the truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Enemy
  • Cultivate

• You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Life
  • Occasions
  • Faculties

• Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

  

  William Blake
  • Heaven
  • Passions
  • Governed

• A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Habit
  • Self-Control
  • Votary

• Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind towards all beings, and loving-kindness towards all the world. One should cultivate an unbounded mind, above and below and across, without obstruction, without enmity, without rivalry. Standing, or going, or seated, or lying down, as long as one is free from drowsiness, one should practice this mindfulness. This, they say, is the holy state here.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Life
  • Protect
  • Holy State

• I have a lot of respect for people who really work on their life - they've got this great apartment and a good personality, they write the thank-you cards and bake birthday cakes. That's who I wish I was. When I see people cultivate their own life like that, I admire it.

  

  Weyes Blood
  • People
  • Life
  • Respect

• We'll fill our lives with what we cultivate the most. Plant grace by the acre.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Grace
  • Cultivate
  • Acre

• As I came to Munich in 1901 it was in a period of great artistic renewal. Jugendstil began in its way to attack the old naturalism and to cultivate the qualities of pure line.

  

  Gabriele Munter
  • Period
  • Naturalism
  • Munich

• Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Mind
  • Happiness
  • Habit

• Writing made it tolerable to be human in a way nothing else ever had. It gave me a place to thrive, to exorcise, to cultivate some understanding of aspects of being human that were otherwise confounding.

  

  Camilla Gibb
  • Writing
  • Understanding
  • Human

• I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Ability
  • Achieve
  • Cultivate

• Cultivate virtue in yourself, and it will be true.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • True
  • Virtue
  • Cultivate

• You sit and you let your fingers go to wherever they are going to go. You wait until you start to hear something, and you start to figure out what it is that you're doing. And then you add another piece next to that piece, and wait to see if some kind of pattern or something interesting starts to grow, and then you cultivate it.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Fingers
  • Piece
  • Cultivate

• If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Blood
  • Killing
  • Cultivate

• Cultivate an appreciation and passion for books. I’m using passion in the fullest sense of the word: a deep, fervent emotion, a state of intense desire; an enthusiastic ardor for something or someone.

  

  Cassandra King
  • Passion
  • Books
  • Appreciation

• Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.

  

  Tia Carrere
  • Brain
  • Beauty
  • Cultivate

• It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Speaking
  • Cultivate
  • Escapes

• The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.

  

  Will Burtin
  • Design
  • Problems
  • Possible

• 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
  • Important
  • Science
  • Own

• The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Cultivate

• I always look on imagination as one of the most powerful things we can cultivate in young people. If they have a good, active imagination, they can cope with life better; they are... able to imagine possibilities and to think around problems.

  

  Michael Pryor
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Around

• Don't wait for inspiration. Learn to cultivate it.

  

  Nick Petrie
  • Learn
  • Inspiration
  • Cultivate