Strivings Quotes

25 Strivings quotes by 21 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations. — Erich Fromm
Faith is an orientation of the total person, giving purpose and goal to one's hopes and strivings, thoughts and actions. — James W. Fowler
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak. — Fred Rogers
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
Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should… — Alain de Botton
An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from… — W. E. B. Du Bois

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