Take Root Quotes

50 quotes by 44 authors

But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts. — Daisaku Ikeda
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. — David Mallet
We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we… — Joyce Carol Oates
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not… — Albert Schweitzer
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. — George Washington
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept… — Jodi Picoult
The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have… — Aldous Huxley
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to… — Terry Goodkind
Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength… — Ronald Reagan
The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars. — Octavia Butler
Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive… — Fred Rogers
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Religious ideas and practices take root not because they are promoted by forceful theologians, nor because they can be shown to have a sound historical… — Karen Armstrong
It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily. — Wendelin Van Draanen
As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate… — T.D. Jakes
Seeds of discouragement cannot take root in a grateful heart. — Joel Osteen
A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root. — Napoleon Bonaparte
It's a good country for myths. Things seem to take root here. — Diana Gabaldon
People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do… — Rhonda Byrne

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