Thrive Quotes

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown

Friendship, Small, Weather

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller

Positive, Thought, Thoughts

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack Obama

Business, Successful, Help

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.
Will Smith

Love, Business, Space

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Good, Someone, Effort

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
Golda Meir

God, Military, Thank

Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Good, Themselves

If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
Barbara Bush

Human, Problems, Rather

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.
Rod Blagojevich

Business, Today, Successful

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.
Eliot Engel

Alone, Small, America

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
Jack Nicholson

Fear, Person, Rather

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker

Humanity, Reason, Often

I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Working, Greater, Pace

There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. It was we who gave the perfect conditions in which Al Qaeda could thrive.
Robin Cook

Perfect, Until, Gave

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
Sallust

Greatest, Union, Destroyed

Africa will thrive.
Bono

You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.
John Podhoretz

Political, Two, Working

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.
Diablo Cody

Positive, Negative, Around

What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle.
James Wolcott

Book, Different, Others

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
Nicolas Cage

Teenager, Anarchist, Harmonious

Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.
Sarah Palin

Mom, Small, Taxes

I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
Rachel Weisz

Envy, Thought, Around

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.
Orlando Bloom

Love, Mad, Making

I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.
Vera Farmiga

Warm, Mountains, Wood

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.
Mitch Daniels

Government, Small, Nation

And because of the reunion I think we've got more energy and enthusiasm than we've ever had. And it's genuine. I think the fans can detect when you're genuine, when you love what you do, and we love to be there on stage. That's what we thrive on.
Glenn Tipton

Love, Energy, Stage

I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
Bear Grylls

Love, Stress, Book

I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.
David Walliams

Love, Others, Off

When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.
Jason Mraz

Down, Healing, Write

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
Harry Shearer

Nothing, Deadlines, Brings

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