Strife Quotes

383 Strife quotes by 302 unique authors

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. — Jesse Owens
Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory… — Jean Paul
There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if… — Steven Pinker
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things… — Beatrix Potter
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife,… — Ezra Pound
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. — Philip Sidney
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always… — Patti Smith
Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that… — Ian Somerhalder
Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for. — James Taylor
In situations of military conflict, civil strife, lawlessness, bad governance, and human rights violations, terrorists find it easier to hide, train and prepare their attacks. — Gijs de Vries
I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside. — Ricky Williams
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories. — E. O. Wilson
No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy… — Henry B. Eyring
Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove… — William Shakespeare
We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags;… — Paul Tournier
Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires… — Andrew Marvell
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. — Khalil Gibran
God helps him who strives hard. — Euripides
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship,… — Ludwig von Mises
Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the governments as far… — Joseph Fielding Smith
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A… — Lloyd Alexander
Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes… — William Shakespeare
Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. — William Wordsworth
One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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