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Quotes About Strive

Since Life is but a Dream, Why toil to no avail?
~ Li Bai
I have done what I could do in life, and if I could not do better, I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
~ Ovid
To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.
~ Spider Robinson
My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
~ Vachel Lindsay
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I like accuracy for its own sake, strive after it myself, and am sometimes guilty of forcing it upon others. -Bunny
~ E.W. Hornung
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
~ Edmund Burke
First just try to hit the moon … walking on its surface is for another day.
~ Edward B. Burger
If we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.
~ Edward Bellamy
Stop for a moment and contemplate in horror the endless list of attachments that you have become a prisoner to. Think of concrete things and persons, not abstractions. Once your attachment had you in its grip, you began to strive with every waking minute of your life to rearrange the world around you so that you could attain and maintain the objects of your attachment.
~ Anthony de Mello
The pandemic, first and foremost, I think had an effect on all of us in different ways, and coming here to the Olympics is something that we've all pushed and strived to do.
~ Stephanie Labbe
Football players come to enjoy the struggle.
~ Jim Harbaugh
there are only a few times in life when you get to test everything you've got—when
~ Francine Mathews
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. Show me someone who says, "Something must be done!" and I will show you a head full of vicious intentions that have no other outlet. What we must strive for always! is to find the natural flow and go with it.
~ Frank Herbert
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
~ Og Mandino
There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the feeling behind the rhythm... to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove.
~ Max Weinberg
The one thing you can control is effort.
~ Malik Jackson
We're not perfect, but we want to do the right thing.
~ Charlie Bell
Esforzarse es obligatorio. Sufrir es opcional.
~ Robyn Carr
I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
~ Ron White
There's nothing left except to try.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Article 9 of Bhutan's constitution says: "The State shall strive to promote those circumstances that will enable the successful pursuit of Gross National Happiness.
~ Madeline Drexler
The only time someone fails in life is when they fail to try at all
~ M. James Airey