Quotes about Flourish

Flourishing goes beyond happiness, or satisfaction with life. True, people who flourish are happy. But that's not the half of it. Beyond feeling good, they're also doing good-adding value to the world. Votes: 3

When schools flourish, all flourishes. Votes: 2

Virtue can only flourish among equals. Votes: 2

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. Votes: 2

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. Votes: 2

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them. Votes: 2

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. Votes: 2

Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping centers flourish and service the communities, and jobs come out. Votes: 2

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. Votes: 2

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. Votes: 2

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. Votes: 2

We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure. Votes: 2

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. Votes: 2

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business. Votes: 2

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish. Votes: 2

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility. Votes: 2

Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. Votes: 2

Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willing to work at it. I love the image of pushing a boulder uphill - it will flourish you. Votes: 2

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Votes: 2

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. Votes: 2

As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies. Votes: 2

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. Votes: 2

Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it designates must be cultivated. The vibrant, we believe, is what makes certain cities flourish. Votes: 2

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. Votes: 2

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. Votes: 2

Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply. Votes: 2

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond. Votes: 2

With vision we flourish. Votes: 1

Leaders flourish in times of crisis. Votes: 1

Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear. Votes: 1

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave. Votes: 1

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all. Votes: 1

Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism. Votes: 1

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent. Votes: 1

Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish. Votes: 1

I might be one of the most flamboyant characters New Zealand has ever seen, but my intentions are good, and I would like to see New Zealand flourish. Votes: 1

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology. Votes: 1

You can flourish by faith. Votes: 0

People flourish if they're praised. Votes: 0

Purge, emerge and flourish. It's natural. Votes: 0

Industry cannot flourish if labor languish. Votes: 0

A climate in which belief may flourish Votes: 0

Arms and laws do not flourish together. Votes: 0

Creativity can flourish within sensible financial limitations. Votes: 0

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation. Votes: 0

Hate can only flourish where love is absent. Votes: 0

No resource will flourish if managed by government. Votes: 0

Just remember that those things that get attention flourish. Votes: 0

All things flourish, and each returns to its source. Votes: 0

Only a system in which all parts flourish is holistic. Votes: 0

You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish... Votes: 0

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish. Votes: 0

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper! Votes: 0

Kids flourish if we get them to school every day. Votes: 0

I'm so drastically independent; I don't tend to flourish in relationships. Votes: 0

A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish. Votes: 0

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. Votes: 0

When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. Votes: 0

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish. Votes: 0

Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one. Votes: 0

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish. Votes: 0

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere. Votes: 0

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish. Votes: 0

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups Votes: 0

We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed. Votes: 0

I need to be able to engage people; that's where I flourish. Votes: 0

Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs. Votes: 0

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership. Votes: 0

Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together. Votes: 0

Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends. Votes: 0

But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish. Votes: 0

Israel was not created in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish. Votes: 0

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish. Votes: 0

Nations and empires flourish and decay, By turns command, and in their turns obey. Votes: 0

Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up. Votes: 0

The best foundation for relationships to grow, flourish, and succeed is a deep-rooted friendship. Votes: 0

The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish. Votes: 0

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain. Votes: 0

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. Votes: 0

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance. Votes: 0

Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying. Votes: 0

Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together. Votes: 0

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish. Votes: 0

Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety. Votes: 0

Human society needs essntially fellow-feeling and unity. When these two are present, humanness will flourish. Votes: 0

It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people. Votes: 0

I get a kick out of watching him. Everything he does has that extra flourish. Votes: 0

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals. Votes: 0

If you don't let people flourish in their jobs, why are they going to stay? Votes: 0

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow. Votes: 0

Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish. Votes: 0

A fruitless year, take a fearless heartOne that blooms late will flourish in the dark Votes: 0

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young. Votes: 0

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish. Votes: 0

Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish. Votes: 0

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. Votes: 0

The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant. Votes: 0

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish. Votes: 0

People with higher ratios of positive to negative emotions are more likely to flourish in life. Votes: 0

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith. Votes: 0

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing. Votes: 0

we can only flourish when we are truly grounded in self. keep that in mind when journeying. Votes: 0

When you are being what you really are you absolutely flourish in the midst of absolutely everything. Votes: 0

With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.' Votes: 0

All special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish. Votes: 0

I'll ne'er distrust my God for cloth and bread while lilies flourish and the raven 's fed. Votes: 0

May cricket continue to flourish and spread its wings. The world can only be richer for it. Votes: 0

Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. Votes: 0

History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish. Votes: 0

Success comes because you have found your ecological niche and can flourish by doing your own valuable thing. Votes: 0

When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve. Votes: 0

For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as personal choice. Votes: 0

If quantum communication and quantum computation are to flourish, a new information theory will have to be developed. Votes: 0

May the trees continue to thrive and flourish on this earth, filling our hearts with joy and inspiration. Votes: 0

Truth will flourish in fantasy, only to wither and die in what you are pleased to call reality. Votes: 0

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence. Votes: 0

The paradox is the seed of truth. This germ just needs a fertile ground to flourish and bear fruit. Votes: 0

Under the law established by the possessor of the greatest number of devices, sickness and the sick will flourish." Votes: 0

Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish. Votes: 0

We must let this town square, which has added a significant dimension to our political process, continue to flourish. Votes: 0

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish. Votes: 0

NVC helps us connect with each other and ourselves in a way that allows our natural compassion to flourish. Votes: 0

Why does the Church grow and flourish? It does so because of divine direction to the leaders and members. Votes: 0

What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five? Votes: 0

Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl. Votes: 0

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish. Votes: 0

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish Votes: 0

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish. Votes: 0

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish. Votes: 0

The new earth will be like Eden. ..the deserts will gush with water. ... A beautiful and bountiful land will flourish. Votes: 0

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy, error undetected will flourish and subvert. Votes: 0

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color. Votes: 0

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy. Votes: 0

Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground. Votes: 0

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear. Votes: 0

I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like." Votes: 0

Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee. Votes: 0

Our souls cannot be forced to grow, but like flowers, our spiritual selves can be nurtured until they blossom and flourish. Votes: 0

We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish. Votes: 0

For integrity to flourish in society, we have to nurture it - within ourselves, in our children, in our education systems. Votes: 0

Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state. Votes: 0

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish. Votes: 0

When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish. Votes: 0

If we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are to grow into wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted. Votes: 0

People are no different from flowers. If you water them, they flourish. If you are not nice to them, they shrivel up Votes: 0

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish. Votes: 0

A lack of love is the cause for most problems in life, when love is missing, nothing can flourish, only pain thrives. Votes: 0

A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals. Votes: 0

If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected. Votes: 0

The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people. Votes: 0

I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names? Votes: 0

Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation. Votes: 0

Britain cherishes her eccentrics and wisely holds that the function of government is to build a walled garden in which anarchy can flourish. Votes: 0

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy. Votes: 0

Upon your shattered ruins where This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble. Votes: 0

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world. Votes: 0

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish. Votes: 0

It's our right, as a sovereign nation to chose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish and love us. Votes: 0

There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish. Votes: 0

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. Votes: 0

Sometimes we just need a space that gives us permission to be the best, most full version of our artistic selves, and we flourish. Votes: 0

Welbeck will be the main man and I have no doubt he will flourish. Imagine the pace Arsenal will have when everyone is fit. Votes: 0

Mentoring is the cultivation of young adults, the tender caring for and nurturing of them so that they will grow, flourish, and be fruitful. Votes: 0

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole. Votes: 0

Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders. Votes: 0

Your mind is like a garden - unless you cultivate flowers, weeds will flourish. To keep your mind positive, substitute positive thoughts for negative thoughts. Votes: 0

Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish. Votes: 0

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world. Votes: 0

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information. Votes: 0

These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented. Votes: 0

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees. Votes: 0

When we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us. Votes: 0

If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Votes: 0

The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people. Votes: 0

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens. Votes: 0

In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations Votes: 0

The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish. Votes: 0

Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility. Votes: 0

Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance. Votes: 0

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster. Votes: 0

It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community. Votes: 0

As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also - magical religion... Votes: 0

I work consistently hard and smart because I understand that I can only flourish by contributing positively to the universe through my daily decisions and actions. Votes: 0

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. Votes: 0

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish. Votes: 0

So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew. Votes: 0

Getting unstuck is a matter of choice. If you want flourish in life make a choice today to move into that reality. You can do it. Votes: 0

You cannot predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is like a farmer create the conditions under which it will begin to flourish. Votes: 0

By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to discover the secret meditation techniques. Votes: 0

God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us Votes: 0

Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land. Votes: 0

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. Votes: 0

Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him? Votes: 0

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety. Votes: 0

By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to discover the secret meditation techniques. Votes: 0

Good moral character is not something that we can achieve on our own. We need a culture that supports the conditions under which self-love and friendship flourish. Votes: 0

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need. Votes: 0

... the way to thrive is to help others thrive; the way to flourish is to help others flourish; the way to fulfill yourself is to spend yourself. Votes: 0

My communism attempts basically to create a shared society, that's all; a shared society in which individuality will flourish, along with love, and along with mutual respect. Votes: 0

An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision. Votes: 0

Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift. Votes: 0

If sports do not hold significance in our life, we cannot nurture sportsman spirit as a "Sanskar" in our society and without such "Sanskars", the society cannot flourish! Votes: 0

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish. Votes: 0

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny. Votes: 0

When we tend to the areas of life that are important to us, when we make those things a priority, that's when we will flourish in those areas. Votes: 0

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch. Votes: 0

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it. Votes: 0

Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved - all the arts flourish more gracefully - all the sciences extend their range. Votes: 0

Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again. Votes: 0

Flowers flourish when they're watered, and shrivel up when they're not. People are no different. The best leaders are the ones who look for the best in people. Votes: 0

If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering. Votes: 0

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose Votes: 0

Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all. Votes: 0

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world. Votes: 0

I love actors and I love to create an environment where they feel safe to connect and thrive and try things, to fail and succeed and flourish and fly. Votes: 0

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish. Votes: 0

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground. Votes: 0

Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. [...] The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university Votes: 0

We certainly hoped perestroika would win out and that there would be changes. We knew all along that socialism could flourish only with a certain amount of freedom and democracy. Votes: 0

That's what is always fascinating about racism - how it is allowed, if not encouraged, to flourish freely in public spaces, the way racism and bigotry are so often unquestioned. Votes: 0

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone! Votes: 0

May you always be each other's best friend, May your mutual love continue to be so May your successful marriage continue to thrive May love flourish, prosper, bloom and grow Votes: 0

When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens. Votes: 0

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror. Votes: 0

We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups. Votes: 0

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before. Votes: 0

Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead. Votes: 0

Is it what you call civilization that makes England flourish? Is it the universal development of the faculties of man that has rendered an island, almost unknown to the ancients, the Votes: 0

There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course. Votes: 0

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time. Votes: 0

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense. Votes: 0

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. Votes: 0

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church. Votes: 0

Your billion-dollar ideas don't show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish. Votes: 0

When we protect the places where the processes of life can flourish, we strengthen not only the future of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also the essential conditions for peace and prosperity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants. Votes: 0

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies. Votes: 0

The universe conspires to steer one in the direction where one can flourish. Bad or good the experience will be a lesson and a lesson learned is fortune measured by wisdom gained. Votes: 0

Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish. Votes: 0

Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil. Votes: 0

I'm only concerned with making music that I love and that my fans will respond to. I am happy to see other really good young artists able to flourish and pursue their careers. Votes: 0

America is an empire that does not wish to be one ; we are easily discouraged from doing what must be done to maintain the global order that allows democracy and prosperity to flourish. Votes: 0

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that. Votes: 0

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure. Votes: 0

Everyone has the ability to build a financial ark to survive and flourish in the future. But you must invest time in your financial education to build an ark with a solid foundation. Votes: 0

Once you demonstrate to your team that you put them on the same plane of priority as yourself, you will create an environment, and a culture that will make your entire organization flourish. Votes: 0

The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose. Votes: 0

YouTube has proven it can flourish in a model where there is more autonomy, and in that way I think it is an example and a potential model for other areas of the business. Votes: 0

Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment. Votes: 0

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends. Votes: 0

Trust is the glue that holds everything together. It creates the environment in which all of the other elements win-win stewardship agreements, self-directing individuals and teams, aligned structures and systems, and accountability can flourish. Votes: 0

If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of the liveliest minds. Votes: 0

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish. Votes: 0

It isn't the kind of profession that you have that makes you flourish; it's what you are coming from, within, that makes you flourish. Then everything that you step into turns into your garden. Votes: 0

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Votes: 0

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish. Votes: 0

I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings. Votes: 0

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. Votes: 0

Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away. Votes: 0

Inspiration, hunger: these are the qualities that drive good schools. The best we educational planners can do is to create the most likely conditions for them to flourish, and then get out of their way. Votes: 0

The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may be helped and improved by assistance drawn from other arts. Votes: 0

Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation. Votes: 0

An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age. Votes: 0

The power of the web is not in centralization; it's not in closed systems or anything like that. It's in its open nature, and that's what allowed it to flourish for the first 10 or 15 years. Votes: 0

Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade. Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. Votes: 0