Strife Quotes

383 Strife quotes by 302 unique authors

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of… — William Hazlitt
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
Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. — Lloyd Alexander
All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for… — Samuel Gompers
The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing,… — Martin Heidegger
I am like a mariner born and bred on board a buccaneer brig whose soul has become so inured to storm and strife that if… — Mikhail Lermontov
The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered upon a new and enlarged arena. — Jefferson Davis
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can… — Robert E. Lee
Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in… — Mahathir Mohamad
Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can… — Thomas a Kempis
Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised. — Gautama Buddha
Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all… — Plato
The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire… — Teresa of Avila
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it. — Lawana Blackwell
At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them apart. — Empedocles
Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength,… — Jack Donovan
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. — Herodotus
The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become… — Empedocles
The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of… — Ambrose Bierce
He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to… — William Wordsworth
All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us. If one strives to treat… — Mencius
A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices. — Teresa of Avila
Anyone who seeks for the true causes of miracles, and strives to understand natural phenomena as an intelligent being, and not to gaze at them… — Baruch Spinoza
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless… — Thomas Gray

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