Strive Quotes
1700 quotes by 1207 authors
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True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life,"…
— Paulo Freire
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Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents…
— Guy Debord
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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the…
— Charles Dickens
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Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking…
— Franz Kafka
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It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love,…
— Og Mandino
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Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere…
— R A Salvatore
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Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead…
— William Martin
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I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep…
— Portia de Rossi
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Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human…
— Brandon Sanderson
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
— Terence McKenna
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I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve", Perfectionism is other-focused:"What will they think
— Brené Brown
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Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments…
— Hermann Hesse
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In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who…
— Thomas Merton
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Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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I am not impressed with what people own. But I’m impressed with what they achieve. I’m proud to be a physician. Always strive to be…
— Thomas J. Stanley
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We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are…
— Alan Watts
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But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand.
— Christopher Ryan
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