Strive Quotes

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When someone is seeking,â€ said Siddartha, â€œIt happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to… — Hermann Hesse
Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A… — R. D. Laing
I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and… — Hermann Hesse
Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A… — Lloyd Alexander
It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will… — Gene Roddenberry
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only… — Albert Einstein
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is… — Keith Ablow
What whites have rarely had to think aboutâ€”because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little effort… — Tim Wise
Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world. — Joyce Meyer
Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and said in unison,… — Ally Carter
The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any… — Aldo Leopold
When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes. — Thomas S. Monson
We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause. — Vaclav Havel
Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure -… — Charlotte Bronte
Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always… — Peter Kropotkin
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important… — Maeve Binchy

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