I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Be grateful for challenges because... Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would… — Anandi Gopal Joshi Copy Share Image
“A confident and self assured woman is like a plant with thorns. Try to pluck and it will cause you a drop… — Shabnam Sinha Copy Share Image
“Perrotte frowned. “I’d like to turn a plowshare into a sword ,” she said. “I’d cut our way out of those thorns,… — Merrie Haskell Copy Share Image
You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them. — Bethenny Frankel Copy Share Image
Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns? — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
“Poetry without truth, is like a rose without thorns. Still pretty, But sometime the real beauty comes from the things that can… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Even though one is well advanced in virtue, should he stop mortifying himself, he soon would lose his modesty and virtue -… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
“We all have thorns in our flesh. All of us. Love is when we stay and help someone pluck out their thorns… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly. — Joseph Simmons Copy Share Image
“One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image