Strive Quotes

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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. — Aristotle
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first… — Louisa May Alcott
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it. — Jules Renard
When you acknowledge, as you must, that there is no such thing as perfect food, only the idea of it, then the real purpose of… — Thomas Keller
If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed… — Herman Melville
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into… — Rabindranath Tagore
In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are… — Vaclav Havel
Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well. — William Shakespeare
There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim… — Katherine Dunn
But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us… — Albert Camus
For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires… — Chuck Palahniuk
What's wrong with the world Peter? God, I don't know. Where do you start? People give up. We're defeatists and we stop striving or fighting… — Jenny Valentine
This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive.… — Spider Robinson
Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know… — Raymond E. Feist
Should Disappointment, parent of Despair, Strive for her son to seize my careless heart; When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air, Preparing on… — John Keats
I strive for nothing if not consistency — Brandon Sanderson
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. — John le Carre
Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by the rhythm of… — Rabindranath Tagore
The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face… — Chuck Palahniuk
Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we are… — Sue Monk Kidd
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only… — Albert Einstein
Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive… — Chogyam Trungpa
I think too many people presume to read the divine Scriptures and fall into such terrors as this,' said Patricius sternly. 'Those who presume on… — Marion Zimmer Bradley

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