Top 100 Strive In Life Quotes
#4. At some point you just have to let go ... knowing full well you might look back in a couple years and be embarrassed by the finished product. But that's life. And like I said before, if I were to strive for perfection I would never get anything done.
Elizabeth Rudnick
#5. To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.
Spider Robinson
#6. Let us beware of losing our enthusiasms. Let us ever glory in something, and strive to retain our admiration for all that would ennoble, and our interest in all that would enrich and beautify our life.
Phillips Brooks
#8. Rising and falling of my journey made me strive for more in life.
Euginia Herlihy
#9. Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.
Richard Dawkins
#10. At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.
Nick Vujicic
#11. In the new enlightenment, the reason we are driven to become one with the life-process is not merely to experience some form of mystical oneness with everything. We strive to become one with it for the biggest reason there could be - so we can ultimately take responsibility for where it's going.
Andrew Cohen
#12. Similarly, the idea of putting pressure on ourselves to strive for our goals now so that we can feel the rush of reaching them later is as bizarre and misguided a life strategy as hitting ourselves in the face because it fells good when we stop.
Michael Neill
#13. Happiness can be defined as the function of the effort we put forth toward the realization of life's goals. When we understand that our purpose in this world is to strive toward purposeful accomplishment, precisely then will we experience happiness.
H.W. Charles
#14. In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
William Allen White
#15. No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
Og Mandino
#16. I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.
Diane Frolov
#17. I've been lucky to have lots and lots of mentors. I think that is incredibly important in anyone's life to encourage and inspire them, let them understand that their own potential is a reality that they can strive for.
Erik Weihenmayer
#18. The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
Candace Bushnell
#19. We each act as the creator of the self, and therefore, we strive to attain self-realization by understanding what we were in various stages of life including what we began as and what we transmuted into becoming.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#20. I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.
David Walliams
#21. Don't strive for perfection, just do your best. Everything in life is ever revolving to be perfect.
Ann Marie Frohoff
#22. I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
Queen Elizabeth II
#23. 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
#24. Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
Ram Shriram
#25. Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#26. ... The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. ... The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.
David O. McKay
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.
Kathryn Schulz
#30. If you strive to make yourself in such a way that nobody can help loving you, life will blossom, everything will yield.
Jaggi Vasudev
#31. Strive for balance in your life. You are the heart and soul of your business so take care of yourself.
Joey A. Concepcion
#32. Don't look for a successful company to make your life better. Instead, strive to make whatever company your in a success
W.H. Carusso
#34. 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
#35. Ambition is your inner voice that tells you, you can, and should, strive to go beyond your circumstances or situation in life.
Lloyd Blankfein
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power - far from the demands of business - out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#41. 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
#42. Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
Wayne Dyer
#43. Amidst all the criticisms and prejudgement in life, we should strive to do good in return; however small, instead of just turning your back against the world.
Warren Cassell Jr.
#44. In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.
Benjamin Zander
#45. Don't pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure.
Anthony Liccione
#46. A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.
Machado De Assis
#47. Always strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#48. Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick
#49. If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.
Andrew The Apostle
#50. Don't strive to sound poetic. Strive to sound genuine in your writing and you will find poetry in the most mundane things in life.
Bobby Hundley
#51. We are all fighters. It is basic human nature. We strive to get somewhere in life or we fight for survival.
Sarah Castille
#52. 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
#53. He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.
Bruce Lee
#54. Strive to be the very best at whatever you undertake in life.
Chris Hanburger
#55. To strive to better oneself is natural and expected.
To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy.
T.A. Miles
#56. Happiness is the number one thing we should strive to have in life. Not money. Not houses or expensive cars. Happiness is true wealth." I
Micalea Smeltzer
#57. When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#58. Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.
Robert Schumann
#59. As you strive to attain greater success in life, never forget to brace yourself for the worse".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#60. Our strive to succeed in life is an endless journey until we are called to our final resting place".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#61. A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#62. 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
#63. Always strive to get to the top in life because its usually crowded at the bottom.
Habeeb Akande
#64. Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles
Lucretia Mott
#65. You must learn that nobody can control everything in the flow of life," said Dart. "Control is something we all strive for - but you will find, as you become more experienced with magic, that you gain more control over yourself by releasing your need to control life.
A. Grace Martin
#66. The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.
Peter Garrett
#67. Always strive to achieve and eve if you don't reach your goal in life, you will be amongst the stars.
Angela Khristin Brown
#68. In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.
Benjamin Zander
#69. When work is going well, your home life struggles and vice versa. If my kids are OK - that is the most important thing. I strive for balance in my life, though.
Bobby Davro
#70. When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed.
Richard Halverson
#71. I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
Alan Ball
#72. My personal life is awesome, but there's always more to strive for in my career.
Jaime Winstone
#73. And what else is it that men seek in life but power? If they want money, it is but for the power that attends it, and it is power again that they strive for in all the knowledge they acquire. Fools and sots aim at happiness, but men aim only at power.
W. Somerset Maugham
#74. I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul language, watch a lot of violence or see something immoral. I prefer stories with sensitivity and family values; films that strive to lift you up to a higher place in life.
Debra Paget
#75. If you strive to be perfect in everything, whether it's possible or not, you will always live a more fulfilled life.
Behdad Sami
#76. The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.
Bill Nye
#77. We laugh, we sing, we dance, we love, we hate, we triumph and strive for joys that turn to ashes in the mouth, and all the time the divine phenomenon of life is working out its completion beneath those shadowy appearances of things real.
Anonymous
#78. You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.
Pope Paul VI
#79. Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.
Jim Hunt
#80. Here's the sting of livingness. He's back after his nightly voyage of sleep, all clarity and purpose; he's renewed his citizenship in the world of people who strive and connect, people who mean business, people who burn and want, who remember everything, who walk lucid and unafraid.
Michael Cunningham
#81. There will be this colossal moment in your life when you'll rampage all your mind disturbers and pin that one moment forever. Don't crave or pray for that moment though. Go out and strive hard, believe. Focus and be aware for the moment will just pass by. If you catch it, you are colossal.
Chetan M. Kumbhar
#82. I strive for perfection, but I'm not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.
ASAP Rocky
#83. 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
#84. Then Tak looked upon the stone and it was trying to come alive, and Tak smiled, and wrote All things strive.
And for the service the stone had given, he fashioned it into the first Troll, and delighted in the life that came unbidden.
Terry Pratchett
#85. There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is- Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#86. You have two choices in life: you can dissolve into the mainstream or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you must be different. To be different, you must strive to be what no one else but you can be.
Alan Ashley-Pitt
#87. Leadership is one of the things I really strive to excel in in my life.
Nate Parker
#88. I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to their daily lives and future work in court and social service systems.
Dean Spade
#89. Strive as she would to put some order in her thoughts, the words would not come more clearly; yet she felt that she could not leave him without trying to make him understand that she had saved herself whole from the seeming ruin of her life.
Edith Wharton
#90. When you touch a life,
strive to leave it the better
for the change you make
J. Benson
#91. Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!
Patrick Duffy
#92. 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.
Madeleine K. Albright
#93. 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
#94. The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
William Howard Taft
#95. 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
#96. When you see your life through the eyes of a dinosaur, albeit parrot, that's when you truly see the magic of God here and now. Stop questioning the past and live in the moment to strive for a better, more promising future. We're all born to make a difference.
Jes Fuhrmann
#97. We all struggle in some way or another. So it's on us to work hard, and strive towards a better and healthy life.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#98. True friendshipmultiplies 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 a good fortune;to keep him is a blessing
Baltasar Gracian
#99. Without failing at one thing, there won't be an opportunity to try again, learn and grow. Life isn't static but dynamic. Learn to embrace whatever situation you may face and strive to overcome. Believe in yourself, knowing your best is yet to come.
Kemi Sogunle
#100. If you see yourself in everyone and everything, you will naturally strive for win/win scenarios in all aspects of life. If you wish well for others, you are manifesting success for your broader self.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
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