These ants quotes will inspire you. Ants are of a family (Formicidae) of colonial hymenopterous insects with a complex social organization and various castes performing special duties.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging ants quotes, ants sayings, and ants proverbs.
Best Ants Quotes
- “I think everybody should study ants. They have an amazing four-part philosophy. Never give up, look ahead, stay positive and do all you can.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.” ~ Lafcadio Hearn
- “Life is priceless even to an ant.” ~ Liu Xiaobo
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“Next time you see an ant, remember: winter is coming! The best time to prepare for tomorrow is today.” ~ Haddon W. Robinson
- “When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed by a single colony of ants.” ~ Sakya Pandita , Ants quotes work
- “It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “I wonder what ants do on rainy days?” ~ Haruki Murakami
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“Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.” ~ Clarence Day
- “I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.” ~ David Lynch
- “The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn’t know enough to take a vacation.” ~ Clarence Day
- “If all humans disappeared today, the earth would start improving tomorrow. If all the ants disappeared today, the earth would start dying tomorrow.” ~ David Suzuki
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“Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.” ~ Mortimer Adler
- “If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?” ~ Marie Dressler
- “Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.” ~ E. O. Wilson
- “Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.” ~ Saadi
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“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.” ~ Laozi
- “There is no need for ants to have the ability to fly” ~ Karl Pilkington
- “Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties… they live like ants.” ~ Bela Lugosi
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“Ants are a curious race” ~ Robert Frost
- “Do not kill ants. They are your best friends.” ~ Joe Brainard
- “The ant’s a centaur in his dragon world.” ~ Ezra Pound
- “..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “Turn on the prudent
Ant, thy heedful eyes,
Observe her labours,
Sluggard, and be wise.” ~ Samuel Johnson -
“The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.” ~ Bill Vaughan
- “We’re all ants. I’m a glittery little ant.” ~ Alanis Morissette
- “People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.” ~ Lauren Oliver
- “Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.” ~ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
- “I would like to live a day in the life of an ant and hope not to get squashed.” ~ Kiowa Gordon , Ants quotes life
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“When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.” ~ E. O. Wilson
- “Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.” ~ Guru Nanak
- “The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.” ~ E. O. Wilson
- “If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.” ~ Bert Holldobler
- “Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.” ~ E. O. Wilson
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“Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.” ~ Eugenie de Guerin
- “How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.” ~ E. O. Wilson
- “I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.” ~ Charles Kingsley
- “Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.” ~ E. O. Wilson
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“Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves… They do everything but watch television.” ~ Lewis Thomas
- “I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.” ~ Holly Valance
- “My childhood was elegant homes, tree-lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it’s supposed to be. But on the cherry tree there’s this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow – and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.” ~ David Lynch
- “I bought an ant farm. I don’t know where I am going to get a tractor that small!” ~ Steven Wright
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“This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
- “Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “It’s only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.” ~ Harry Hill
- “We’re all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn’t it?” ~ Beth Orton
- “The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.” ~ Orison Swett Marden
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“You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.” ~ Robert Fulghum
- “For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.” ~ Horace
- “Naw, it’s like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!” ~ Charlie Flynn
- “Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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“By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “Do ants get headaches?” ~ David Mitchell
- “The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.” ~ Gerald Brenan
- “When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly through the clean air, watching the earth below.” ~ Eddie Rickenbacker
- “We are human beings, not ants.” ~ Jami Attenberg
- “I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.” ~ E. O. Wilson , Ants quotes love
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“Photoshoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.” ~ Janice Dickinson
- “I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.” ~ Miriam Makeba
- “May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and tortoise circles the world.” ~ Jonathan Carroll
- “The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee…gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
- “I don’t believe in evil; I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.” ~ Isak Dinesen
