Strife Quotes
383 Strife quotes by 302 unique authors
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No festival of martial glory or warrior's renown is this; no pageant pomp of war-like conquest, no glory of fratricidal strife attend this day. It…
— Peter J. McGuire
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Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
— Thomas Gray
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With ills unending strives the putter off.
— Epictetus
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Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell…
— Dorothy Day
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Women with women. Men with men. They committed indecent acts with one another. And they received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. They're…
— Phil Robertson
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A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually strives…
— Mark Dever
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Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties,…
— Emperor Norton
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly and yet how human and real is it? And all this life and love and strife…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.
— James Turrell
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It is the purpose of life that each of us strives to become actually what he or she is potentially. Each photographer, then, should be…
— David Hurn
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Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths…
— Margaret Thatcher
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The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the…
— Jan Tschichold
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The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems…
— Andrew Marr
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Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived and…
— Thomas R. Pickering
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A certain type of person strives to become a master over all, and to extend his force, his will to power, and to subdue all…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.
— Pope Leo I
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I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
— Sam Houston
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As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure…
— Leon Trotsky
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire…
— Sallust
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The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create objects…
— Colin Blakemore
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Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become…
— Denis Waitley
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The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.
— Laozi
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If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would…
— Jupiter Hammon
Who Wrote These Strife Quotes
302 authors contributed a total of 383 Strife Quotes, led by these top contributors: