Quotes About Strive

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.

A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

No man in America ever strove more, and more successfully first to bring about a Congress in 1765, and then to support it ever afterwards than myself.

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

There's danger in this open world where men strive to be free, and to me the greatest danger was in society.

If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Man's restlessness makes him strive.

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.

Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.

Try and fail, but never fail to try!

Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.

We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature.

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.

As hard as we strive, man remains a perfect imperfect being.