Strive Quotes
1700 quotes by 1170 authors
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I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that he was only…
— Susan Orlean
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A just society must strive with all its might to right wrongs even if righting wrongs is a highly perilous undertaking. But if it is…
— Eric Hoffer
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So what does it look like to live a life worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ? It looks like walking with, loving with, and…
— Matt Chandler
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We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply, trying to gaze…
— Matt Chandler
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Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.
— George Bellows
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God has set before you an open door which no man has a right or power to shut. If you should be shut out, it…
— Archibald Alexander
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I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom…
— Richard Stallman
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose…
— Samuel Johnson
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To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying,…
— B. C. Forbes
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There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way…
— Elihu Root
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It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so…
— John Wilkins
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Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.
— John C. Maxwell
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
— Thomas a Kempis
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The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you…
— Pope Gregory I
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The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore,…
— Maximilian Kolbe
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You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him,…
— Alphonsus Rodriguez
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There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.
— James S. Coleman
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Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its energy to draw sustenance from…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Make no man your friend before inquiring how he has used his former friends; for you must expect him to treat you as he has…
— Isocrates
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