Top 100 To Strive Quotes
#1. The key to humanity is simple. Live your life with purpose. They need goals to strive for.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#2. Not everyone can be as suave as you are."
"But they all dream of it."
"Well we all need unattainable goals. Gives us something to strive for.
Nichole Chase
#4. God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will.
Pope John Paul II
#5. To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
Nicolas Cage
#6. Some would think the leader of a people should be a model of what to strive for. But maybe God knew trying to be perfect is just not healthy, or maybe God could not find any perfect human beings. Maybe it's just not possible to be perfect.
Seth Greenland
#7. As a writer, I like the list of "things to strive for" that Richard Yates kept above his typewriter:
genuine clarity
genuine feeling
the right word
the exact English sentence
the eloquent detail
the rigorous dramatization of story
Richard Yates
#8. I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#9. If these slaves had only any future, anything to hope for, to strive for, to live for, any prospect before them, then i should non deplore their lot but nothing, nothing.
Fredrika Bremer
#10. It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no one's are. You see, our whole purpose is to strive together in righteousness, overcoming our weaknesses day by day. Don't ever give up on each other.
Ardeth Kapp
#11. I'm giving you everything I have, Triss. I want to be yours, and I want you to be mine. No matter what storms lay ahead of us, I know that as one we can make it. I'm not perfect by anyone's standards but you make me want to strive to be the best person I can be. - Logan
Karice Bolton
#12. Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings
more satisfaction in the end.
Megan Hart
#13. The only way to acquire spiritual knowledge and keep It burning brightly is to be humble, prayerful, and to strive diligently to keep all of the commandments.
James E. Faust
#14. There will always be something to strive for. My hope is for the heart to strive forever.
Joan Benoit
#15. To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.
Alfred Molina
#16. In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.
John Masefield
#17. There is no end in creativity. Hence, to strive towards an end result is a fool's errand. Set goals, make music and paint pictures, but know that the crux of your happiness balances delicately on the wings of the act of creativity itself. Not at the finish line.
Brandon Boyd
#18. Practice makes permentant, never perfection, but perfection is a goal to strive for.
Jordan Mak
#19. A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back - bruised and aching - as he continues to strive for excellence due to the all-consuming obsession and love for his art.
H.G. Mewis
#20. To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.
Carl Honore
#21. The effort to strive for truth has to precede all
other efforts.
Albert Einstein
#22. It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.
Steve Buyer
#23. We will do all we can to insure peace... but if war is imposed upon us we will be together shoulder to shoulder as in the last war to strive for the happiness of mankind.
Georgy Zhukov
#24. To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.
Spider Robinson
#25. We need to strive for more than normality because normality brings lack of fruitfulness, lack of growth, lack of increase and lack of success.
Euginia Herlihy
#26. Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.
Peter Singer
#27. 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
#28. And what is a gold medal? I'd never really thought about it before Nagano. Now I realize that it's a dream to strive for. I love my silver medal, because it stands for all my dreams and all I'm still capable of fulfilling
Michelle Kwan
#29. 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.
Alexander Pope
#30. ... 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
#31. 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
#32. AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?
Jonathan Safran Foer
#33. I don't even bother trying to picture a perfect world, because I don't think that perfection is something to strive for. I prefer imperfection. That's what makes things special. You know, things that change
Anthony Kiedis
#34. Do not just envisage your own hopes, dreams - but, have the courage to strive toward them.
Eleesha
#35. Perfectionism is boring and doesn't exist-to strive for it makes you uninteresting.
Eva Mendes
#36. The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#37. Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air.
Lyonel Feininger
#38. To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
Seneca The Younger
#39. I don't think racism can be eliminated in my lifetime ... or my children's or grandchildren's. But I think it's something we have to strive for. I'm going to keep working toward that day coming.
Spike Lee
#40. The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.
Wilferd Peterson
#41. You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.
Ani DiFranco
#42. It was all right to hope and noble to strive, but in the end it was doom alone which would count.
Stephen King
#43. I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. Big results require big ambitions. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. - ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Bob Proctor
#45. To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.
P.B. Kerr
#46. I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It's too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.
Paul Haggis
#47. It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.
Francis Atterbury
#48. What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.
Lindsay Pearce
#49. 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
#50. A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.
Lee Kuan Yew
#51. We are the only life form that can bring a purpose to our lives. It doesn't make sense to strive and strive and then die without any meaning to it.
Jo Maeder
#52. Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
Sun Tzu
#53. I'm only human, & inadequacy is what makes us human, & if we was perfect we wdnt have nothin to strive for, so you might as well go on & forgive me pretty baby, cause i'm sorry
Ntozake Shange
#54. You don't want to just get by, you want to get ahead. You don't want to settle for mediocrity, you want to strive for greatness. You don't want to get lost in the crowd, you want to stand out and lead the charge. Pushing the limits of your potential isn't easy, but it will be worth it.
Michael J. Schiemer
#55. We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.
Richard Branson
#59. Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.
Elon Musk
#60. 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
#61. Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength.
Edward Kitsis
#62. May you get all your wishes but one, So you always have something to strive for. Irish blessing
Janice Thompson
#63. Many learn from the past
but few do something with it.
Take Action.
Struggles bring strength to strive and succeed.
Farshad Asl
#64. 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
#65. That's another way of writing a song, of course. Just talking to somebody that ain't there. That's the best way. That's the truest way. Then it just becomes a question of how heroic your speech is. To me, it's something to strive after.
Bob Dylan
#66. 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
#67. To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.
Indira Gandhi
#75. Love is not a word or an idea or even a place to go to or a thing to strive for. It is not something to grasp and smother and mold and change. It cannot be orchestrated, played, controlled or manipulated. You can not cup it tenderly in your open hand or wish it into being through fervent prayer.
Vanessa G. Foster
#76. Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much
David Bayles
#77. A world that begins to witness the rebirth of trust among nations can find its way to a peace that is neither partial nor punitive. With all who will work in good faith toward such a peace, we are ready, with renewed resolve, to strive to redeem the near-lost hopes of our day.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#78. I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
Sam Bradford
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.
Marion Woodman
#87. 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
#88. As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.
Roy Barnes
#89. 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
#90. Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust.
David Aylward
#91. 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
#92. Perfection is an admirable thing to strive for. But so is knowing when to stop.
Richelle Mead
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. To strive to seek to find and not to yeild-Tennison
Joe Pranaitis
#97. But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.
Eric Alterman
#98. Mom used to quote Isaiah 64: about waiting on the Lord. It doesn't mean being complacent. It means understanding that he has a plan, and that we're not the ones in control. In the meantime, we need to strive to use our gifts and abilities fully.
Tim Tebow
#99. The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates
#100. Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
Charles De Lint
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