Strive Quotes
1700 Strive quotes by 1170 unique authors
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No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love,…
— Og Mandino
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Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere…
— R A Salvatore
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Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead…
— William Martin
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I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep…
— Portia de Rossi
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Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human…
— Brandon Sanderson
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
— Terence McKenna
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I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve", Perfectionism is other-focused:"What will they think
— Brené Brown
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Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments…
— Hermann Hesse
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In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who…
— Thomas Merton
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Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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I am not impressed with what people own. But I’m impressed with what they achieve. I’m proud to be a physician. Always strive to be…
— Thomas J. Stanley
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We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are…
— Alan Watts
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But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand.
— Christopher Ryan
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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