Top 100 Quotes About Strive
#1. Do not seek perfection. None exists. All we can do is strive.
Terry Pratchett
#2. In finding love, I think it's important to be patient. In being in a relationship, I think it's important to be honest, to communicate, to respect and trust, and to strive to give more than you take.
Kina Grannis
#3. History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.
Haile Selassie
#4. If you want relief from pain just strive to touch more of every part of life.
Bryant McGill
#5. 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.
Swami Vivekananda
#6. Zen is not "attained" by mirror-wiping mediation, but by "self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now." We do not "come", we "are." Don't strive to become, but be.
Bruce Lee
#7. When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself?
Santideva
#8. There is one thing that humans strive for with every cell, every gene, every nerve fiber of our beings ... More than Mallomars, more than hot sex, we want to belong.
Cynthia Heimel
#9. What I really appreciate about the music that I grew up to is that I feel like I can put it on now and still hear something new. It's still relevant. That's how I want my music to be perceived. It's what I strive for.
Goapele
#10. Perfection is an admirable thing to strive for. But so is knowing when to stop.
Richelle Mead
#11. It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.
Patti LuPone
#12. An attitude of compassion does not mean looking down on someone, pitying them in their misery. Compassion is based on respect. We discuss life as equals, learn from each other and strive together to improve our lives.
Daisaku Ikeda
#13. We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We're more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.
Mike Tyson
#14. Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact, there was never such a year. The language of Chaucer's or Shakespeare's time was no better and no worse than that of our own - just different.
Jean Aitchison
#15. tranquillity is only one aspect of the harmony of life. And harmony is what all people strive to achieve. Harmony is the basis of a clear mind, of a good and powerful karma.
Eric Van Lustbader
#16. Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference,
ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your own being.
C. G. Jung
#17. If we comprehend what Christ has done for us, then surely out of gratitude we will strive to live 'worthy' of such great love. We will strive for holiness not to make God love us but because He already does.
Philip Yancey
#18. Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#20. From now on you must strive to cut out unnecessary
movement. Waste in movement is wrong and will get you
killed.
Masaaki Hatsumi
#21. Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.
Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
#22. The always popular notion that the United States is in "moral decline" (a phrase favored in the pulpits and the press of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) rests on the assumption that Americans used to be far more religious and should strive to return to their former fidelity.
Peter Manseau
#23. Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.
Bill Lear
#24. I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.
Lawren Harris
#25. We aren't supposed to strive for perfection everyday. If we were perfect, we'd have no need for Jesus. And it's through our imperfections that we really feel the pull toward our need for a Savior. So the imperfections serve a wonderful purpose if we'll let them.
Lysa TerKeurst
#26. Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust.
David Aylward
#27. It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.
Christopher Jones
#28. Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.
Matthew Arnold
#29. Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.
Amy Winehouse
#30. The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#31. To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies and develop our minds to the limits of our ability.
Joseph Pilates
#32. Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.
Pindar
#33. After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
Alain De Botton
#34. Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.
Janez Drnovsek
#35. Even if you do no work that is particularly lofty or far-reaching, if you can shed mundane feelings, that is a great achievement. Even if you do not strive much for progress in learning, if you can minimize the influence things have on you, you will soar into the realm of sages.
Zicheng Hong
#37. As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.
James E. Faust
#38. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
Oscar Wilde
#39. As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.
Roy Barnes
#40. You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that's waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.
Joseph Campbell
#41. What we strive to restore and re-animate will never come from the promises of the middle class politicians, but will come instead from the spirit of the last Delphic prophecy, which foresaw that, 'One day Apollo will return and it will be forever'.
Guillaume Faye
#42. To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.
Marion Woodman
#43. We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service.
Theodore Roosevelt
#44. I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.
Kelley Armstrong
#45. When emulation leads us to strive for self-elevation by merit alone, and not by belittling another, then it is one of the grandest possible incentives to action.
Samuel Johnson
#46. I won't just have a job; I'll have a calling. I'll challenge myself every day. When I get knocked down, I'll get back up. I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I'll strive to be the grittiest.
Angela Duckworth
#47. To this end, we should help and support one another and strive for peace and union among ourselves. This is the wine that cheers and strengthens travelers along the narrow path of Jesus Christ.
Vincent De Paul
#48. I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
Eamon De Valera
#50. I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal - so we can't know for sure what your "normal" is even like.
Naoki Higashida
#51. For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.
Patrick Rothfuss
#52. Do not be satisfied by just getting what you need, strive and work harder to get what you want.
Auliq Ice
#53. Live every moment - no matter where you are and what you're doing - as if it were truly important... you must strive to be in a good place - a place of purpose and integrity... Life is short under any circumstance and in some cases it can be plucked away at a moment's notice.
David Elliot Cohen
#54. Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
Sophocles
#55. In the spirit of commitment to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, we will strive to achieve real progress in disarmament and arms control.
Sergei Lavrov
#56. Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.
Lloyd Blankfein
#57. Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
Albert Einstein
#58. Most adults with ADD are struggling to express a part of themselves that often seems unraveled as they strive to join the thought behind unto the thought before.
Edward M. Hallowell
#59. I do think that poetry is important though, if you don't strive at it, if you don't fill it full of stars and falseness.
Charles Bukowski
#60. At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.
John Lasseter
#61. The kids of today have to be better than us. We must strive to create tools adequate for human beings that come with other things that are, at least, different from those we used to have.
Jose Mujica
#62. Only the insecure strive for security.
Wayne Dyer
#63. The challenge therefore, as you strive for success, is to make it a habit to live your life on purpose. You must learn to make deliberate plans and then practice the art and science of doing things on purpose.
Archibald Marwizi
#64. However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#65. I had to work 10 times harder. People expect so much of you, because they want to see if you can strive and stand on your own.
Kelly Rowland
#66. Strive not for perfection..but for lives and loves that matter.
Debora Spar
#67. What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything.
Evgeni Plushenko
#68. It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.
E.F. Schumacher
#69. I know when I look good, I feel good. I know when I come home and my house is in order, everything else seems to fall into place for me. Shouldn't we strive for that all of the time?
Nannie Helen Burroughs
#70. Scripture speaks of a holiness which we have in Christ before God and a holiness which we must strive after.
Jerry Bridges
#71. We need a top-to-bottom review of every economic development and assistance program we have to ensure that they encourage everyone to strive instead of settle, because there is dignity in all work.
Carly Fiorina
#72. I have no agenda - just to be loved. Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.
Clarence Clemons
#73. From today onwards, I am going to strive for the greatest purity of soul, that the rays of God's grace may be reflected in all their brilliance.
St. Faustina Kowalska
#74. Truth in Christ is not a matter of being near or far like in martial arts when you strive for a black belt. He saves us then we grow; not the other way around.
Criss Jami
#75. The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
Indira Gandhi
#76. Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day
Brian Tracy
#77. 8The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. 9He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever. 10He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor punished us according to our iniquities.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#78. Should Disappointment, parent of Despair,
Strive for her son to seize my careless heart;
When, like a cloud, he sits upon the air,
Preparing on his spell-bound prey to dart:
Chase him away, sweet Hope, with visage bright,
And fright him as the morning frightens night!
John Keats
#79. 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.
Helen Simonson
#80. I'm not Michelangelo but I would like to be that. I'll never be him but I'm trying to strive to do that in my work.
Brian Bird
#81. Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#82. I strive for perfection - I settle for satisfaction
Carroll Bryant
#83. You become a man when you marry not just for love but to be a partner with your wife. To be the best man you can be with her, and when you fall short, to admit your shortcomings and to constantly strive to be a great man to your wife.
Carew Papritz
#84. This is the journey marriage calls us to, to seek to understand and empathize, for each of us to strive to become a redemptive partner rather than a legal opponent.
Gary L. Thomas
#85. Just before bedtime prayers, evaluate each day. Make plans for tomorrow that will move you toward your long-range goal. Strive for a close partnership with God in making your dreams come true.
Florence S. Jacobsen
#86. Strive to be a person of character not a person of power.
Debasish Mridha
#87. It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
Johan Huizinga
#88. Say it's true: It is what it is. We're social, tribal, musical animals, walking percussion instruments. Most of us do the best we can. We show up. We strive for gratitude, and try not to be such babies.
Anne Lamott
#89. Justice of the world is in its creativity, in solving problems, in our activity and struggle. While I am alive there is the possibility to act, to strive for happiness, this is justice.
Simon Soloveychik
#90. The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.
David Ben-Gurion
#91. The Open is the one that we all want and strive for and to be able to hold this Claret Jug is an incredible feeling. To be three legs towards the career grand slam at the age of 25 is a pretty good achievement. It's not going to sink in for a while.
Rory McIlroy
#92. I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#93. Our attitude will determine what we will strive for, whom we will be, and how our life will turn out.
John Patrick Hickey
#94. One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth ... I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.
Albert Einstein
#95. I put God first, and strive to do my best by being a loving human being, recognizing that sometimes I make mistakes and bad choices.
Common
#96. My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.
Elizabeth Dole
#97. A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud
#98. To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.
Michael Novak
#99. Our reality defines itself by people who strive for change
Daniel Egger
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