Cultivate Quotes

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
Mae West

May, Dangerous, Won

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington

Faith, Peace, Good

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Peace, Science, Live

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David Thoreau

Respect, Law, Desirable

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.
Voltaire

Work, Put, Rest

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Good, Beautiful, Humanity

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Care, Eyes, Themselves

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Work, Greatest, Reality

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Money, Business

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
William Powell

Friends, Rather, Few

Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
Norman Borlaug

Peace, Time, Justice

An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Anatole France

Education, Mind

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
James Madison

Truth, Reason, Majority

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
Henry A. Wallace

Truth, American, Fact

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman

Selfish, Religious, Pleasure

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Thucydides

Beautiful, Mind, Simple

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
William Beveridge

Ignorance, Evil, May

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
Jon Meacham

Politics, Wise, Political

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Leadership, Eyes, Path

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
Brian Eno

Religion, Yourself, Strong

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
George Cadbury

Life, Family, Happy

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.
James Baldwin

Men, Alone, Artist

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Jean Cocteau

Public, Criticizes

Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.
Jean Cocteau

Yourself, Whatever, Public

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Knowledge, Rather, Growth

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell

Time, Busy, Thinking

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.
Benjamin Carson

Person, Talent, Order

I can't cultivate a relationship with my child if it's between takes. I tried that on a movie and realized, 'This is not going to work.' It will work some of the year, but not 12 months a year.
Katherine Heigl

Work, Between, Child

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.
Sean Connery

Away, English, Accent

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
Nikki Giovanni

Art, Taste, Cultivated

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