Strivings Quotes
25 quotes by 21 authors
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which…
— Nelson Mandela
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The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human…
— Libba Bray
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The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The…
— Sarah Doudney
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I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and…
— Albert Einstein
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I do believe that an intimacy with the world of crickets and their kind can be salutary - not for what they are likely to…
— Howard Evans
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.
— Erich Fromm
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Faith is an orientation of the total person, giving purpose and goal to one's hopes and strivings, thoughts and actions.
— James W. Fowler
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Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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Our grandfathers were less well-housed, well-fed, well-clothed than we are. The strivings by which they bettered their lot are also those which deprived us of…
— Aldo Leopold
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The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.
— Anthony Storr
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Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his…
— Saul Bellow
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There is in all our strivings a profound homesickness for God. When we touch another we touch God. When we look at a flower, its…
— Stephen Levine
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When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly…
— Albert Einstein
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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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I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the…
— Lech Walesa
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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
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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
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How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Who Wrote These Strivings Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 25 Strivings Quotes as follows: