Strive Quotes
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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.
Jen Selinsky -
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.
Boyz II Men
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In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.
Nolan Gould -
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.
Vladimir Putin -
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.
Caroline Pratt -
Don’t worry about being normal. It’s an awful thing to aspire to.
Gary Janetti -
Once you've got an inspired spark, you've got to strive. You've gotta keep putting wood on it, so they say, to keep it burning. But then there's the alchemist side of it, that's the fire that's burning but it don't burn.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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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 -
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.
David E. Hoffman -
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?
William Allingham -
Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.
Alexander Crummell -
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 -
Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.
Epictetus
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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.
Charles Baxter -
Because doing the right thing is not the goal, doing the best thing is what you must strive for.
Eric Van Lustbader -
Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.
Bill Lear -
The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.
Lao Tzu -
In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.
Rabbi Hillel -
Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.
Bruce Bawer
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Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.
Lao Tzu -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw -
Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.
Joyce Meyer