Strive Quotes
1700 quotes by 1170 authors
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Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die?…
— William Peter Blatty
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You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that's waiting to…
— Joseph Campbell
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... Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't…
— Billy Gibbons
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Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature.
— Camille Paglia
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Don't put off joy and happiness. Strive to live each day to its fullest, squeezing all the joy you can out of each moment. Instead…
— Tony Robbins
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Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...] Learn how to…
— Homer Hickam
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We need to take a less narrow look at our children’s problems and, instead, see them as windows of opportunity—a way of exploring and understanding…
— Stanley Greenspan
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To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
— Jane Rule
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Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.
— Unknown Author
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Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.
— Bill Lear
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With ills unending strives the putter off.
— Epictetus
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To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. ... He recognizes no national…
— Milton Friedman
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Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and after prayer for…
— J C Ryle
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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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Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One…
— Alice Bailey
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I came to the conclusion that we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions…
— Elon Musk
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I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne.
— Stephen Harper
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You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff…
— Ben Fountain
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Class is striving hard to be the best at what you do while taking the needs of others into consideration
— Roger Staubach
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A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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