Strive Quotes

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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies… — John W. Gardner
People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped… — Henry Louis Gates
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to… — Stephen Jay Gould
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert… — Baltasar Gracian
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. — Baltasar Gracian
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God. — Billy Graham
In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to… — Kina Grannis
Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better. — Edwin Louis Cole
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Men should strive to think much and know little. — Democritus
Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever… — Patrick Duffy
Only the insecure strive for security. — Wayne Dyer
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare… — Henry Van Dyke
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. — Albert Einstein
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. — George Eliot
Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do? — Will Ferrell
I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform. — Ismail Haniyeh
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe… — Bill Hicks

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