Quotes About Strive

Men—most people, in fact—value the hard-won prize over that which comes to them easily, don't you think?" Excerpt From: "Marry in Haste

Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice keeps me from feeling isolated.

All I can promise is I'll do my very best. I'll try as hard as I can.

I always knew it'd be difficult to balance the right of privacy and the right of free speech. I think that is a tension that we've seen in court case after court case and law after law. And we always strive to find that right balance.

No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.

Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim.

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

I should like to see you try.

Across a world where all men grieve And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides and leave Our dead on every shore.

We strive for heights bit our natures betray us, Chamcha thought; clowns in search of crowns. The bitterness overcame him

Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

Always imitate the behaviour of the winners when you lose.

I deem we have still much to do and will of course strive for stabilizing the situation in the country and continuing reforms. I am confident in success. All we need at this point is public order.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.

My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword.

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

All force strives forward to work far and wide To live and grow and ever to expand; Yet we are checked and thwarted on each side By the world's flux and swept along like sand: In this internal storm and outward tide We hear a promise, hard to understand: From the compulsion that all creatures binds, Who overcomes himself, his freedom finds.

The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and the changing, not in the become and the set-fast; and therefore, similarly, the reason is concerned only to strive towards the divine through the becoming and the living, and the understanding only to make use of the become and the set-fast.