Root Quotes

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Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils. — Nathanael Emmons
The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any. — Stuart Wilde
There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. — Marion Milner
We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day. — Henry David Thoreau
Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root,… — Leigh Hunt
Goe and catche a falling starre, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me, where all past yeares are, Or who cleft the Divel's foot.… — John Donne
Getting to know the feel of both emotional energies, fear and courage, will enable you to choose courage more consciously. You don't want fear's energy… — Judith Orloff
When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the… — Rajneesh
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's… — Elizabeth Drew
Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the heart of each… — Ravi Zacharias
Becoming rich isn't as much about getting rich financially as about whom you become, in character and mind, to get rich. I want to share… — T. Harv Eker
So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the… — Charles Dickens
You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive… — Khalil Gibran
History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what… — Thomas Carlyle
The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind… — Francis Bacon
The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them. — Joseph Henry
Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims… — John Owen
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors — Charles Caleb Colton
This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was… — Jonathan Swift
Homework, root canals, and deadlines are the important things in life, and only when we have these major dramas taken care of can we presume… — Cynthia Heimel

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