Strive Quotes

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. (James Thurber)
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. View quote
Franz Kafka
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. View quote
Andrew Johnson
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. View quote
Albert Einstein
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us. View quote
Ovid
Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all. View quote
José Martí
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? View quote
Charles de Lint
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? View quote
Robert Browning
You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful? (James Tiptree, Jr)
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. View quote
William Osler
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. View quote
Pat Riley
I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. View quote
Dan Millman
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. View quote
Alexander Pope
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life. View quote
Madeleine Albright
We must strive to become good ancestors. (Ralph Nader)
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. View quote
George W. Bush
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies. View quote
George W. Bush
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality. View quote
William Wilberforce
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go Be our joys three-parts pain Strive, and hold cheap the strain Learn, nor account the pang dare, never grudge the throe. View quote
Robert Browning
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