Strive Quotes

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Man must strive, and striving he must err. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for… — Henry David Thoreau
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who… — Henry David Thoreau
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
... people don't know what they are striving for. They waste themselves in senseless thrashing around for the sake of a handful of goods and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive… — Frederick Douglass
There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended. — Isaac Watts
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches… — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Over our manhood bend the skies; Against our fallen and traitor lives The great winds utter prophecies; With our faint hearts the mountain strives, Its… — James Russell Lowell
Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it, We are happy now because God so wills it; No matter how barren the… — James Russell Lowell
Laugh, love, dream, strive, smile, feel, joy, look, try, fail, read, walk, search, share, help, work, fun, learn, retry, sweat, cry, rest, wait, fear, hope,… — Steve Coleman
Occasionally when you’re in that zone, striving to operate at your highest levels, you get consumed. You forget to eat and shower. But that can… — Brandon Steiner
I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs. — Gaetano Pesce
Man's restlessness makes him strive. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling… — Erich Fromm
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his… — Robert Louis Stevenson
However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him… — Alexis de Tocqueville
No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it. — Robert Breault
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a… — Abraham Lincoln
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation. — Robert Burns
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make… — Emma Goldman

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