Strive Quotes
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Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations -- all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.
Vladimir Lenin
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Strive to be in good spiritual and bodily health. Because how are you going to do all that marching if you are not in good health?
Alveda King
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Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.
Abraham Lincoln
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We all strive to find something unique and special that we are passionate about that separates us from the rest.
Carissa Moore
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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
William Hurt
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I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.
Chris Johnson
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Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be to enhance nature, not to detract from it....we should strive to develop the rose's beauty in flower, growth and leaf.
David C.H. Austin
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Not only are we not using any programmed loops or computers onstage, we're also improvising with our instruments. We're playing our instruments probably more so than most people that I see play their instruments. I think we all sort of strive for that - we all want magical things to happen onstage. We don't say "mistakes" in this band, we call them "highlights."
Brendan Benson
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Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.
John Milton
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In a society of little economic development, universal inactivity accompanies universal poverty. You survive not by struggling against nature, or by increasing production, or by relentless labor; instead you survive by expending as little energy as possible, by striving constantly to achieve a state of immobility.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life.
William Peter Blatty
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If you think of the public lives of people who've been unlucky, it seems showbiz is some tumultuous crazy world but some are fortunate and some unfortunate. All I can do is keep striving to be better.
Harry Connick, Jr.
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I love what I do and I strive to be better; that's what keeps me going. I'm never a slacker, always a striver.
Nicole Scherzinger
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
William Howard Taft
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Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.
Alexander Crummell
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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
William Shakespeare
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I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. ... Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.
Homer Hickam
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Therefore the Sage embraces Unity, and is a model for all under Heaven. He is free from self-display, therefore he shines forth; from self-assertion, therefore he is distinguished; from self-glorification, therefore he has merit; from self-exaltation, therefore he rises superior to all. Inasmuch as he does not strive, there is no one in the world who can strive with him.
Lao Tzu
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Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
William James
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Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think you have enough; it always destroys you by making you strive ever harder for more.
Benjamin Blech
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Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. The only love that completes us is the love of God, and the love of God is the love of everyone.
Marianne Williamson
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And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
William Shakespeare
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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 governed by the same tendency.
Rudolf Arnheim