Strive Quotes
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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.
Boyz II Men -
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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A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.
Terry Teachout -
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 -
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 -
In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.
Rabbi Hillel -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.
Mark Hoppus Blink-182 -
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. -
Don’t worry about being normal. It’s an awful thing to aspire to.
Gary Janetti -
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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The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.
Lao Tzu -
Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
William Shakespeare -
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 -
We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.
William H. Macy -
Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.
Bill Lear -
The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.
William Howard Taft
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Because doing the right thing is not the goal, doing the best thing is what you must strive for.
Eric Van Lustbader -
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 -
Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.
Alexander Crummell -
In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
William Allen White