Gardening Quotes | Quotsagram (3)

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint and the soil and sky as canvas. -Elizabeth Murray

Life begins the day you start a garden. -Chinese Proverb

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden. -Ruth Stout

Count the garden by the flowers, not the leaves that fall. Count your life by smiles, not the tears that roll.

More grows in the garden than the gardener sows.-Spanish Proverb

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment.  My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams.  The thoughts grow as freely as flowers and the dreams are as beautiful. -Abram L. Urban

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything; except itself. -May Sarton

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides. -W.E Johns

Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful’, and sitting in the shade. -Rudyard Kipling

A gardener learns more in the mistakes than in the successes. -Barbara Dodge Borland

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. -Allan Armitage

Weather means more when you have a garden. -Marcelene Cox

We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it's our garden that is really nurturing us. -Jenny Uglow

The garden is the poor man’s apothecary. -German Proverb

Gardeners learn by trowel and error.

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece. -Claude Monet

As a gardener, I’m among those who believe that much of the evidence of God’s existence has been planted. Robert Brault

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. -Henri-Frederic Amiel

Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. -Roger B. Swain

An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life. -Cora Lea Bell

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise. -Henry Mitchell

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Best Business Lesson Quotes from the World of Chess | Quotsagram

Winning is not a secret that belongs to a very few, winning is something that we can learn by studying ourselves, studying the environment and making ourselves ready for any challenge that is in front of us. -Garry Kasparov

Self-confidence is very important. If you don’t think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. Magnus Carlsen

The move is there, but you must see it. -Savielly Tartakower

It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them. -Magnus Carlsen

Good positions don’t win games, good moves do. -Gerald Abrahams

It is not enough to be a good player. you must also play well. -Siegbert Tarrasch

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it. -Aaron Nimzovich

When you see a good move, look for a better one. -Emanuel Lasker

It is not a move, even the best move that you must seek, but a realizable plan. -Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it’s okay to lose. I don’t. You have to be merciless. -Magnus Carlsen

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth. -Alexander Kotov

Be a harsh critic of your own wins. -Vasilios Kotronias

Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something. -Dan Heisman

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances. -Bobby Fischer

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation. -Max Euwe

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out. -Paul Keres

Confidence is very important, even pretending to be confident. If you make a mistake but do not let your opponent see what you are thinking, then he may overlook the mistake. -Viswanathan Anand

Haste is never more dangerous than when you feel that victory is in your grasp. -Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

A bad plan is better than none at all. -Frank Marshall

No one ever won a game by resigning. -Saviely Tartakower

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Confucius Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve, and bad things are very easy to get.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals; adjust the action steps.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/ him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

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Wine Quotes #4 | Quotsagram

A man, fallen on hard times, sold his art collection but kept his wine cellar. When asked why he did not sell his wine, he said, “A man can live without art, but not without culture".

Wine connects man and nature and time in a way nothing else does. -Hugh Johnson

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star. -Leonardo da Vinci

Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art. -Robert Mondavi

Wine is perhaps the closest thing the planet has to an elixir of life. -Thom Elkjer

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Drink a glass of wine after your soup, and you steal a ruble from the doctor. -Russian Proverb

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water. -Benjamin Franklin

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy(a wine) is one of them. -Isak Dinesen

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne(a wine) is just right. -Mark Twain

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin(a wine). -Napoleon

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens. -Thomas Jefferson

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. -Henny Youngman

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Gardening Quotes #2 | Quotsagram

We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden. -Anonymous

In a garden full of weeds, dare to be a flower.

If you want to be happy for a lifetime, be a gardener. -Chinese Proverb

Gardeners are like doctors; they both bury their mistakes.

Gardening begins with daybreak and ends with backache.

A man should never plant a garden larger than his wife can take care of.

When life gives you shit, grow a garden.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

Don't wear perfume in the garden, unless you want to be pollinated by bees.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. -Francis Bacon

An addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life. -Cora Lee Bell

A gardener’s work is never at an end; it begins with the year and continues to the next. -John Evelyn

Gardening; it comes in handy when you need to hide the bodies.

God made rainy days so gardeners could get housework done.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. -Vita Sackville-West

There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. -Janet Kilburn Phillips

Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. -Allan Armitage

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. -William Cowper

If you are a garden plant, you are regarded; well regarded, just as long as you stay in the garden. -Davies Gilbert

My idea of gardening is to discover something wild in my wood and weed around it with the utmost care, until it has a chance to grow and spread. -Margaret Bourke-White

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there. -David Hobson

Gardening is medicine that does not need a prescription and has no limit on dosage.

One is nearer God's heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth.

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Chess Quotes by World Champions | 96 Quotes

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well. -Anatoly Karpov

Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan. -Alexander Alekhine

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind. -Bobby Fischer

Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately -Mikhail Botvinnik

I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else. -Boris Spassky

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position -Anatoly Karpov

Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices. -Mikhail Tal

If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in open tournaments. -Anatoly Karpov

Contrary to many young colleagues I do believe that it makes sense to study the classics. -Magnus Carlsen

The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the climax of the game. -Boris Spassky

The cherished dream of every chess player is to play a match with the World Champion. But here is the paradox: the closer you come to the realization of this goal, the less you think about it. -Mikhail Tal

You can only get good at chess if you love the game -Bobby Fischer

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Wine Quotes Collection #2 | Quotsagram

Great wine works wonders and is itself one. -Edward Steinberg

Every time I open a bottle of wine, it is an amazing trip somewhere. -Jose Andres

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized. -Andre Simon

Wine is a passport to the world. -Thom Elkjer

His lips drink water but his heart drinks wine - E. E. Cummings

There comes a time in the day that no matter the question...the answer is wine.

The older the grape, sweeter the wine. -Janis Joplin

Start your day with coffee, end your day with wine.

Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with. -Jill Shalvis

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night. -D. H. Lawrence

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. -Tennessee Williams

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. -Carl Jung

As long as we have wine, the holidays will be fine.

Wine. Because it's not good to keep things bottled up.

Wine makes all things possible. -George R.R. Martin

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. -Samuel Johnson

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Henry Ford Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.

To do more for the world than the world does for you, that is success.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Money doesn’t make us, anyway, it just unmasks us.

There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The partnership of mind and matter is one which has existed since the beginning of time and cannot be dissolved.

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

Vision without execution is just hallucination.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes | Quotsagram

My life is my message.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.

In a gentle way you can shake the world.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Peace is its own reward.

I cannot teach you violence as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before anyone even at the cost of your life.

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Rumi Quotes | Quotsagram

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.

Being a candle is not easy; in order to give light one must first burn.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

Silence is the language of God. All else is poor translation.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

If people misunderstand you, do not worry...It is your voice that they hear, but what goes through their mind is their own thoughts.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

If all you can do is crawl. Start crawling.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is.

Listen to silence. It has so much to say.

Anyone who knows me should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with a new face everyday.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

You have seen my descent. Now watch my rising..

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

The cure for the pain is in the pain.

Appear as you are. Be as you appear.

Shine like the whole universe is yours.

Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.

Know that one day your pain will become your cure.

Consciousness sleeps in minerals, dreams in plants, wakes up in animals, and becomes self-aware in humans.

Know then that the body is merely a garment, go seek the wearer, not the cloak.

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

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Zen Proverbs Quotes Sayings Collection | Quotsagram

Obstacles do not block the path, they are the path.

Change how you see and see how you change.

Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark.

In Zen, we don't find the answers.We lose the questions.

Let go or be dragged.

Water which is too pure has no fish.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

Words are the fog one has to see through.

Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are and to let everything go as it goes.

Knowledge is learning something everyday. Wisdom is letting go of something everyday.

He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

The only zen you find at the top of the mountain is the zen you bring with you.

Understanding nothingness takes time.

Joy comes from appreciation. Appreciation comes from paying attention. Paying attention is the practice of Zen.

Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom.

Consider the trees which allow the birds to perch and fly away without either inviting them to stay or desiring them never to depart. If your heart can be like this, you will be near to the way.

If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

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Practice Quotes Collection | Quotsagram

If you don't practice, you don't deserve to win. -Andre Agassi

Practice puts brains in your muscles. -Sam Snead

Practice is the best of all instructors. -Publilius Syrus

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

When you are not practicing, remember, somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him he will win. -Ed Macaulay

The formula for success is simple; practice and concentration, then more practice and more concentration. Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is practice. Vladimir  Horowitz

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good. Malcolm Gladwell

A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories. -Anthony De Mello

There is no glory in practice, but without practice, there is no glory.

Good players practice till they get it right... Great players practice till they never get it wrong.

Make the practices like games and the games like practices. -Don Meyer

The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.

Practice without theory is more valuable than a theory without practice. -Marcus Quintilianus

You earn your trophies at practice. You just pick them up at competitions.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. -Mahatma Gandhi

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. - Knute Rockne

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