Jose Rizal Quotes

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

That one plant should be sown and another be produced cannot happen; whatever seed is sown, a plant of that kind even comes forth.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Rivers neede a spring.

Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees.

You can't change the fruit without changing the root.

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.

The roots of the grass strain, Tighten, the earth is rigid, waits-he is waiting- And suddenly, and all at once, the rain!

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

Still sweet with blossoms is the year's fresh prime.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

Whatever you give out in life is what you receive back in life. Give positivity, you receive back positivity; give negativity, you receive back negativity.

You put junk in, junk comes out. You put good in, good comes out.

He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

No stream rises higher than its source

Each choice has a consequence. Each consequence a destination.

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers.