Strive Quotes
1700 quotes by 1170 authors
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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
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All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at. Nay, so far are they from doing anything to control…
— Baruch Spinoza
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It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously…
— Gerrit Smith
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Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim…
— Alva Myrdal
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A good marriage does not require a perfect man or a perfect woman. It only requires a man and a woman committed to strive together…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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We frequently may press forward hoping and praying—but without absolute assurance—that we are acting in accordance with God’s will. But as we honor our covenants…
— David A. Bednar
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Let me recommend that periodically you and I offer a prayer in which we only give thanks and express gratitude. Ask for nothing; simply let…
— David A. Bednar
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You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if…
— Bill Gates
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We don't only invent God; we also discover God. Looking at the creation, we strive to deduce the nature of the creator. We take familiar…
— Forrest Church
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I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know its…
— Gordon Brown
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Is it better to strive for success as a self-representing artist or try to get your feet wet in the gallery world? That is such…
— Matt LeBlanc
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And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies…
— Julian Grenfell
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The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according…
— Murasaki Shikibu
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When you ride the wave, the thrill is so exhilarating that you forget everything else. You live in the moment where nothing else matters, so…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation…
— Barack Obama
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Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do…
— Laozi
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I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is…
— Steffi Graf
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When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as…
— Edvard Munch
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Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this…
— Jascha Heifetz
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