The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone strives to be anything negative. I just think that it's our nature to only focus on a few… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
[O]nly if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His… — Loraine Boettner Copy Share Image
No life can be pure in its purpose, and strong in its strife, and all life not be purer and stronger thereby. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
In the race for wealth, a neighbor tries to outdo his neighbor, but this strife is good for men. For the potter… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason,… — Plato Copy Share Image
Each lodge is an oasis if equality and good will in a desert of strife, working to wield mankind into a great… — Joseph Fort Newton Copy Share Image
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife. — Euripides Copy Share Image
The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other… — Mohammed Emami-Kashani Copy Share Image
But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends… — Empedocles Copy Share Image
Much contention and strife will arise in that house where the wife shall get up dissatisfied with her husband. — Saadi Copy Share Image
Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
If Trump were to go ahead with a renewed policy of hostility toward Iran, it would immediately raise tensions, and could quickly… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
So as through a glass, and darkly - The age long strife I see - Where I fought in many guises, -… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image