Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
David Mallet

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something that's never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish.
Charlie Haden

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.
Clement Freud

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.
Howard Thurman

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.
Leo Burnett

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
Simon Wiesenthal

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
Jack Kingston

Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.
Bill Owens

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy

Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.
Connie Smith

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Dean Koontz

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
George Henry Lewes

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.
Thomas Friedman

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan Watts

Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.
George Crabbe

Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish.
Arthur Levitt

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
Logan P. Smith