I've always thrived on getting a drive from different…

I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.

— Patti Smith

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived,

— Gennifer Flowers

Where I'm fortunate and why I think I've thrived and survived, through the not having albums out every year-and-a-half, is not taking the songs…

— Rodney Atkins

Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and…

— Sonja Lyubomirsky

Fighting at home does bring pressure - of course it does. But I've always thrived on that.

— Michael Bisping

I've always thrived on challenges, both personally and professionally.

— Jeff Zucker

I've always thrived under the pressure of the big games. I enjoy that, and there's nothing I get afraid about.

— Dele Alli

I've thrived on people writing me off. Because if you write me off, I'll shut you up.

— Andrew Flintoff

In a way, I've thrived on the competition, perhaps it has made a better player because of it.

— Frank Lampard

The sense of a spiritual dimension in life is absolutely important, and the religious communities are also important. The question of believing in a…

— Elaine Pagels

Ego, id, and superego are terms familiar to all, but for many years, Freud's psychoanalytic theory has thrived in English departments around the country…

— Siri Hustvedt

Violence always thrived on counter violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Chris was very comfortable in the public eye and thrived in that kind of environment. I, less so.

— Dana Reeve

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was…

— Jack Schwartz

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce…

— Barack Obama