Strive Quotes
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And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.
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I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?
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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.
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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.
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If you truly dislike something, you are going to work harder than you ever did before. You will strive with all your breath and strength to find a way out.
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I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.
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Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.
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Don’t worry about being normal. It’s an awful thing to aspire to.
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In a sense, evolution adheres to the classic twelve-step program: it takes things one day at a time. It does not strive for perfection; it does not strive at all. There is no progress, no plans, no scala natura, or scale of nature, that ranks organisms from lowly to superior, primitive to advanced.
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You’re the strength that I hold on to. And I hope I’m the strength that you hold on to, so we can strive together and be perfect. ‘Til death do us part.
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I just think you just try to strive for something really good. You just keep striving and working hard at it.
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Now they [NATO and the USA ] are sitting there, and we are talking about all these crises we would otherwise not have. You can also see this striving for an absolute triumph in the American missile defense plans.
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I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.
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Perfect joy lies in selflessly striving for the best outcome, and then humbly accepting whatever God gives.
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I strive that in public dissection the students do as much as possible.
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Because doing the right thing is not the goal, doing the best thing is what you must strive for.
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In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
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We all strive to find something unique and special that we are passionate about that separates us from the rest.
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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.
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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.
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Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.
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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.
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Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental law of man. Aloft, at least for a little while, the needs disappear. Likewise the striving. In the thoughts of man aloft, food and evil become mixed and sometimes reversed. This is the open door to wisdom. Aloft, the earth is ancient and man is young, regardless of his numbers, for there, aloft he may reaffirm his suspicions that he may not be so very much. This is the gateway to humility.
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The more closely he has observed the tugboat, the more deeply he has been stirred by it, and the more eagerly and vividly he will strive to recreate it, in building, in drawing, in words.
