Strive Quotes

1700 Strive quotes by 1170 unique authors

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that… — W. Somerset Maugham
A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these… — Jostein Gaarder
But when a man suspects any wrong it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter he insensibly strives to cover up… — Herman Melville
I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all… — Brenda Ueland
By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. — Aldo Leopold
Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life. — Albert Einstein
The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call… — Robin McKinley
Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger… — Ian Fleming
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that… — Frantz Fanon
When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and… — Anne Rice
This is why alchemy exists," the boy said. "So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than… — Paulo Coelho
We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first… — Erich Maria Remarque
Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels… — Charles Baudelaire
a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart. — Vincent Van Gogh
An iceberg is water striving to be land; a mountain, especially a Himalaya, especially Everest, is land's attempt to metamorphose into sky; it is grounded… — Salman Rushdie
He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The… — Jack London
As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions. — James E. Faust
Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to… — Andre Breton
...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The… — Viktor E. Frankl
Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus… — Frank Herbert
We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in… — H.G. Wells
Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly… — Fred Rogers

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