Strive Quotes

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Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles — Lucretia Mott
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success… — Fran Tarkenton
For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak… — Richard M. Nixon
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
Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive,… — Robert Browning
Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living… — Albert Schweitzer
It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's… — Albert Einstein
Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. — Lloyd Alexander
I eagerly await new concepts and processes. I believe that the electronic image will be the next major advance. Such systems will have their own… — Ansel Adams
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. — Edward Abbey
A woman, as much as a man, is responsible by the age of forty for the character of her face. But women, obeying the biological… — Edward Abbey
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people… — Zadie Smith
The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a… — Frederic Bastiat
Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of… — Kurt Vonnegut
As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it.Â You shoot a film, and the result could… — Woody Allen
Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate. — Amy Winehouse
The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism — Carl Rogers

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