Strive Quotes
1700 quotes by 1170 authors
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For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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What's wrong with the world Peter? God, I don't know. Where do you start? People give up. We're defeatists and we stop striving or fighting…
— Jenny Valentine
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This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive.…
— Spider Robinson
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Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know…
— Raymond E. Feist
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Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air, Preparing on…
— John Keats
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I strive for nothing if not consistency
— Brandon Sanderson
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Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
— John le Carre
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Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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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
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Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on…
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his…
— Albert Einstein
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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.
— Tim Ferriss
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Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.
— William Shakespeare
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I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which…
— Salman Rushdie
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So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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