Strife Quotes

383 Strife quotes by 302 unique authors

There is in nature a parallel unity which corresponds to the unity in the mind and makes it available. This methodizing mind meets no resistance… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautiful. It is here that love gathers… — John O'Donohue
But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our… — Matthew Arnold
A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these… — Jostein Gaarder
But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up… — Herman Melville
On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory. — Douglas MacArthur
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces… — Sara Teasdale
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire… — Walter Savage Landor
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that… — Frantz Fanon
And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that… — Theodore Roosevelt
The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for… — Bertrand Russell
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife. — William Blake
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you… — Dean Koontz
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed… — Herman Melville
I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind,… — Homer
I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can… — Mary Karr
The peace of Manderley. The quietude and the grace. Whoever lived within its walls, whatever trouble there was and strife, however much uneasiness and pain,… — Daphne du Maurier
O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The Testimony… — George Sterling
Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of… — Rabindranath Tagore
Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound,… — Homer
What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride… — Nikola Tesla
O Thou who art my quietness, my deep repose, My rest from strife of tongues, my holy hill, Fair is Thy pavilion, where I hold… — Amy Carmichael
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning - both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with… — Franz Kafka
So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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