Best Strives Quotations
155 Strives quotes by 129 unique authors
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The…
— Alexander Pope
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You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals. ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain…
— Carlos E. Asay
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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
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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
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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
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Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
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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
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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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The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to…
— Georges Duhamel
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Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination - whose light…
— Maximus the Confessor
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When one has reverence for life, one will never do anything to harm, hinder, or destroy life. Instead one bends every effort to help life…
— Wilferd Peterson
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Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric…
— Irving Howe
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We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the…
— Aldo Leopold
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Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near…
— Vikram Seth
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So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of…
— John Masefield
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Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived…
— Al-Ghazali
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Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our…
— Yishan Wong
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Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.
— Leo Tolstoy
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We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for…
— Michelangelo
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Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and…
— Lawrence G. Lovasik
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The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His picture…
— Walter J. Phillips
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