Top 100 Always Strive Quotes

#1. Don't be satisfied ... always try to strive for more.

Johny Hendricks

#2. The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good on the inside.

Erykah Badu

#3. I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

Brad Furman

#4. My God, help me always resolutely to strive, and, through life and death, to force my way unto Thee.

Christian Scriver

#5. 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

#6. If you strive to be perfect in everything, whether it's possible or not, you will always live a more fulfilled life.

Behdad Sami

#7. We urge you to do all within your talent and means to build the kingdom of God on Earth. Always strive to sustain, support and do what is best for the kingdom of God.

Ezra Taft Benson

#8. Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity in this environment, it may be necessary to delay our production growth to match the market.

Joe Craft

#9. Cheerleading is life, you must give it your all, and always strive to be on top. It teaches you so much, from how to be a team player, leadership, dedication, confidence, and many other qualities.

Natasha Richardson

#10. Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't have to be the best one; just be a good 'un" .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good 'un ...

Billy F. Gibbons

#11. I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

Mark Hoppus

#12. Keep on reinventing yourself! Always strive to be a better version of yourself!

Avijeet Das

#13. The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#14. Ah well, there you go. Young people are always demanding respect instead of trying to earn it. In my day, respect was something to strive for. Something to be given, not taken. Major Pettigrew

Helen Simonson

#15. I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.

Melanie Martinez

#16. My personal life is awesome, but there's always more to strive for in my career.

Jaime Winstone

#17. You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.

M.J. Rose

#18. I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.

Phil Keoghan

#19. I was a big 'Blue Valentine' fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

Dane DeHaan

#20. Always strive to achieve and eve if you don't reach your goal in life, you will be amongst the stars.

Angela Khristin Brown

#21. I always strive to keep a balance with my fears. I don't like to be ruled by them. At the same time, I don't like the idea of living my life totally free of any fears. I like having that moderation.

Zoe Saldana

#22. We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ovid

#23. You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

Juan Manuel Fangio

#24. Take perfection and throw it out the window. There's always something you can make better or do differently - strive to IMPROVE, not attain the impossible.

Denise Austin

#25. I love love. Growing up, I always thought it was a state, and I'd wait for it to appear. Now I think it's an activity, a skill, something you strive to create. A constant conversation between emotion and imagination and flesh.

Greg Saunier

#26. Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

Ian Fleming

#27. The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment.
Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.
So always strive for that.
Set your life around that goal.
Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#28. It is always good to strive to be like people whom you respect. Conversely, I also feel that there are not many things more depressing than finding out that you have things in common with people you detest.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#29. 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

#30. That's what you strive for - you strive to take your move to the next level. It's about shock value, always shock value, but keeping it flavor and stylized and making it yours.

Crazy Legs

#31. Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom.

Habeeb Akande

#32. You always have to strive

Marcus Luttrell

#33. MANDELA: a man deemed to be the greatest icon in Africa. his life thought me couple of lessons that always inspires me to strive hard for respect and to make an impact on humanity. may his footsteps continue to live for ever on the sands of time.

Victor Adeagbo

#34. When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Paulo Coelho

#35. Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it.

Eraldo Banovac

#36. Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

George Washington

#37. Always strive for the best, and never settle for less!

LaQuita Cameron

#38. Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#39. People want what's best for them, and they can switch on a dime, because there's always a new disruptor disrupting the last disruptor. So companies should just strive to keep changing and adapting to their customers' needs.

Ben Chestnut

#40. I am not impressed with what people own. But I'm impressed with what they achieve. I'm proud to be a physician. Always strive to be the best in your field ... . Don't chase money. If you are the best in your field, money will find you.

Thomas J. Stanley

#41. I am not and never will be perfect. I am not always as honest, respectful, responsible, fair or as kind as I should be. All I can do is what I should do: strive every day, with every decision to be the best person I can be. I don't expect to be perfect but I know I can be better.

Michael Josephson

#42. Always have a book to read, instead of indulging in vain conversation. Strive to learn English ... Remember this, that you cannot commit some loved sin in private, and perform the work of the ministry in public, with facility and acceptance.

Christmas Evans

#43. I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

Jessica Chastain

#44. The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#45. 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

#46. Strive to be the best you can be ... focus, watch, listen, and learn. Try never to be satisfied with 'good enough' ... and above all, love what you do-share that passion with others, and always stay humble. Nobody likes a 'big head' no matter how good you are.

Robby Naish

#47. The view from above is always beautiful. Strive to go there, but never forget to be kind.

Debasish Mridha

#48. I strive to get what I want and people have always said I am a monster in that department, but that is always said about us ladies who grasp for our own strength.

Julie Andrews Edwards

#49. It's always the people who strive to find, and tell you about one of your imperfections, that want to feel one step above you. The truth is their ten steps below you with nothing better to say.

Ron Baratono

#50. When you strive to possess, there is always a reward waiting for you both in heaven and on earth.

Sunday Adelaja

#51. I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, "What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence."

Jake Gyllenhaal

#52. You're always striving to play that perfect match.

Chris Evert

#53. The one who always strives,
That one can be redeemed.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#54. You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

LL Cool J

#55. In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.

Jessie Matthews

#56. Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up.

Victoria Addino

#57. Nothing just happens. You always have to strive. - Marcus Luttrell

Marcus Luttrell

#58. Always strive to be a leader and not a follower.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#59. Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.

Robin Hobb

#60. Time is not money or gold; it is life itself and is limited. You must begin to appreciate every moment of your life and always strive to make the best use of it.

Khurram Murad

#61. Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.

Andre Agassi

#62. Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

Jascha Heifetz

#63. Above all the genuine philosopher will generally seek lucidity and clarity and will always strive not to be like a turbid, raging, rain-swollen stream, but much more like a Swiss lake, which, in its peacefulness, combines great depth with a great clarity that just reveals its great depth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#64. Strive to always do what is right,not in the eyes of others,but in your own heart.Others thoughts are transitory-One moment they will love you,the next day they will not.Act on what is right in your own heart and there will be victory!!

Aivy Denisse Sto.Domingo

#65. 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

#66. Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

John Of The Cross

#67. I like looking back at art-work or my writing and seeing it in a different perspective...It shows how much one has grown as a creator. Perfection may not exist in reality but I always strive to capture the beauty in whatever I happen to be doing.

Alexander Lloyd Curran

#68. We are all equal in that we can all strive to become the best we are capable of becoming. We can always improve but we shouldn't compare ourselves to others. We get in trouble when we start trying to measure up to someone else.

John Wooden

#69. If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence.

Linda W. Yezak

#70. My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.

Victoria Aveyard

#71. We strive always to have a beginner's mind.

Marc Benioff

#72. 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

#73. If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.

Mikaela Shiffrin

#74. Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

Jane Fonda

#75. I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay.

Dean Koontz

#76. I believe that managers must loosen the controls, not tighten them. They must accept risk; they must trust the people they work with and strive to clear the path for them; and always, they must pay attention to and engage with anything that creates fear.

Ed Catmull

#77. We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.

Marcelo Gleiser

#78. As a musician, we should always want to strive to be better, we can always make improvements. It's easy to get comfortable and it's easy to find your voice and your sound, but I always wanted to be better.

Eric Hernandez

#79. Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what's leftover after you have given your best to everyone else.

Dave Willis

#80. Sex is my practice. It's where I always strive to be my best self. I try to be as honest as possible, as present as possible, as centered as possible, as kind as possible, as generous as possible without being a doormat.

Nina Hartley

#81. I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side.

Gordon Brown

#82. You should always strive to work ON the business, not IN the business.

Aman A S

#83. Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society.

Mila Kunis

#84. Don't strive for perfection. It doesn't exist. Strive for a better you. That's always in reach.

Brett Hoebel

#85. I know I always carry her with me, and to have a piece of her grace shine through me is a gift I will continually strive to earn.

Esther Earl

#86. There will always be something to strive for. My hope is for the heart to strive forever.

Joan Benoit

#87. One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

JoAnn Ross

#88. A woman can always strive to be stronger in the face of painful emotions.

Morgan Rhodes

#89. No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never be swayed by unworthy motives or inconsequential reasons, but to strive to unearth the basic factors involved, then do one's duty.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#90. Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.

Roger Zelazny

#91. I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.

Joseph Hall

#92. Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.

Demi Lovato

#93. We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse ... we should strive to keep worry from our life.

Baruch Spinoza

#94. I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.

Hope Solo

#95. I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.

Chuck Noll

#96. There are actors I have very strong chemical responses to, and I strive always to figure out ways to work with them and get them to sing my stuff.

Jason Robert Brown

#97. The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest to do so.

Norm Phelps

#98. Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#99. And the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

Paulo Coelho

#100. My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

Erin O'Connor

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