Quotes About Strive

Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series of slogans that sum up our beliefs.

Who among us would not have to strive for this above everything else: to reach such security in one's ability that one has always the correct counterweights ready within one's conscience to offset the judgment that arrives from the outside.

The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

As that wise Indian, André Béteille, always points out, what we must strive for is reasonable equality of opportunity, not absolute equality of result. That we have plainly not achieved

Life is a search for the spiritual. Whether in the throes of pain or in the disappointments of pleasure, we strive for an essence that is beyond the physical.

For success there is no ladder or elevator, if you want to reach the top, you have to climb."

Yes, one could prepare, one could strive, one could make choices, but ultimately life was an elaborate game of providence and probability.

one could prepare, one could strive, one could make choices, but ultimately life was an elaborate game of providence and probability.

Everyone confusedly conceives of a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore everyone strives to attain to it.

Writers (of supernatural fiction), who used to strive for awe and achieve fear, now strive for fear and achieve only disgust.

If you don´t try, you don´t get. "Exactly,

On the path of Budo one does not strive for victory over an opponent... one strives to avoid defeat by one's own self.

Yahweh accepts that man has a history, but he strives to neutralize it by giving it a purpose, which is precisely the return to the pre-historical state of paradisiacal "innocence." (Yahweh only accepts history in order to assign it an end.)

Being ambitious, driven, and passionate can sometimes come at a cost and warp our sense of perspective: when we constantly work and strive to be better, we can find ourselves dwelling on mistakes of the past or putting pressure on what we'll do in the future, rather than living in the present.

The flesh is but a sack of goo, a feast for worms to delve into. Remember, mortal, as you strive, that you, ambitious goo, must also die.

That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.

Walk with pride and great stride ...with love in your heart where peace does reside.

We may well discover that the business failure we avoid and the business success we strive for do not lead us to personal success at all. Most of us have inherited notions of "success" from someone else or have arrived at these notions by facing a seemingly endless line of hurdles extending from grade school through college and into our careers. We constantly judge ourselves against criteria that others have set and rank ourselves against others in their game.

you have to do something for yourself. The Declaration of Independence promises the pursuit of happiness. You got to work for it.

if we strive to re-create reality more to our liking, we will trend not toward freedom and hope but toward disgusting and impious degradations, and there is no depth to which we will not fall even further. But

I always come in different. A different Charles comes in every time. A Charles that wants to fight and win and become the champion.

All the things that people like me supposedly don't do, I do.

The rage of someone who continues to strive so hard and work so hard but is interrupted every day by society, by racism, by white supremacy, by the patriarchy - how can you not feel empathy?

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