Strive Quotes

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You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch… — Beryl Markham
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for… — Winston Churchill
...in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and… — Kelley Armstrong
Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection,… — Hermann Hesse
Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great… — Caroline Knapp
I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their… — Theodore Roosevelt
I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could… — Theodore Roosevelt
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of… — Voltaire
Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as… — John Newton
If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing… — Irvin D. Yalom
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't — William Shakespeare
Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time. — FÃ©lix J. Palma
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life. — Anton Chekhov
I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me. — Charles Dickens
You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat. — Ha Jin
Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should… — Alain de Botton

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