What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we… — Brad Sherman Copy Share Image
Do what you may, strive as earnestly as you can, live as excellently as you please, make what sacrifices you choose, be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied… — Plato Copy Share Image
If we strive for happiness, it's going to be elusive because things constantly happen with human beings that disrupt that happiness. But… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding;… — Ed Bliss Copy Share Image
Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity… — Jim Hunt Copy Share Image
It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
For all its enormous range of space, climate, and physical appearance, and for all the internal squabbles, contentions, and strivings, what you… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Nowadays the world is becoming increasingly materialistic, and mankind is reaching toward the very zenith of external progress, driven by an insatiable… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity… — Frederic Chopin 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
There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the… — Max Weinberg Copy Share Image
Each person should display her own particular gifts for study. For no one is safe who strives beyond her abilities; and thus… — Laura Cereta Copy Share Image
We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must... communicate whatever struck his… — Medardo Rosso Copy Share Image
Incentives are spurs that goad a man to do what he doesn't particularly like, to get something he does particularly want. They… — Paul G. Hoffman Copy Share Image
For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is.… — Ann Bancroft Copy Share Image
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We strive to find love and happiness. Life can be tough at times. I know that life can knock you into the… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The world remains a very hostile place for women in many corners of the globe. As such, we should all strive to… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving,… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We're looking for a certain kind of realism or naturalism, and we go about it in different ways, but I think we're… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies,… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in… — Dan Fouts Copy Share Image
Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I'd like to give the audience what they've always wanted to see and also I want to give the audience what they've… — Kim Jee-woon Copy Share Image
People sometimes strive after and think they will find deep satisfaction for their psyches in wealth, sex or drugs, but then find… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image