“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
A cultivation of the powers of one's personality is one of the greatest needs of life. — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of… — George Will Copy Share Image
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self. — Novalis Copy Share Image
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not,… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Pride is a deeply rooted ailment of the soul. The penalty is misery; the remedy lies in the sincere, life-long cultivation of… — Robert Gordis Copy Share Image
But Medicine is a demonstrative Science, and all its processes should be proved by established principles, and be based on positive inductions.… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake.… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the… — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
. . .nature is still predominant, and there are those who regret that with the improvements of cultivation the sublimity of the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
“Growth is an unavoidable part of life. Whether we mean for it to happen or not, our bodies continually nourish and regenerate… — Scott Edmund Miller Copy Share Image
Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Taste is not stationary. It grows every day, and is improved by cultivation, as a good temper is refined by religion. In… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Pain is as expansive as life itself. Pain grows with us and in us as a cultivation of life's unfolding.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Greatness is the amount of time you were able to invest into cultivating your ground.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it. — Mary Hays Copy Share Image
Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up… — Li Hongzhi Copy Share Image
“If you were looking for whom to make a hero, look in the direction where there are farmers, for they are the… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot… — Plato Copy Share Image
