Strive Quotes

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Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a… — William Matthews
When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness. — William Shakespeare
Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence. — Victoria Principal
Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or… — Henry Royce
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want — Fran Tarkenton
Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless. — Laozi
Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving. — Laozi
Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do… — William Morley Punshon
I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are… — Brian Carter
So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never… — Albert Hadley
Our challenge is to face up heroically to the world as it is and do our very best to make the most of our lives.… — Wilferd Peterson
The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything. — George Santayana
In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for the… — David Cortright
The time has come for those nations that rely on the force of nuclear armaments to respectfully heed the voices of peace-loving people, not least… — Iccho Itoh
For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who sacrificed… — Jan Eliasson
Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of… — Robert McNamara
Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear… — Alva Myrdal
In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and… — Olympia Brown
Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I… — Zhuangzi
Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing. — Unknown Author
Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only… — Baltasar Gracian
Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough? — Leo Tolstoy
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from… — Baruch Spinoza
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. — Andre Malraux
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing… — Gautama Buddha

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