Strive Quotes

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We're all unique and we all have our own talents. If you keep acknowledging your assets and accomplishments , and strive to be the best… — Jude Bijou
Make others truly happy as you strive to make yourself happy. Speak a helpful word. Give a cheering smile. Do a kind act. Serve a… — Sivananda
I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight… — Mike Tyson
Do nondoing, strive for nonstriving, savor the flavorless, regard the small as important, make much of little, repay enmity with virtue; plan for difficulty when… — Laozi
A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to… — Wilferd Peterson
The great secret of success is to go through life as a person who never gets used up. That is possible for those who never… — Albert Schweitzer
It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important… — Edward Steichen
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable… — William Matthews
Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and greed… — Brent L. Top
A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Man must strive, and striving he must err. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for… — Henry David Thoreau
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who… — Henry David Thoreau
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive… — Frederick Douglass
There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended. — Isaac Watts
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches… — Abbott Lawrence Lowell

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