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Quotes About Strive

Our reality defines itself by people who strive for change
~ Daniel Egger
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe.
~ Heinrich Heine
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
~ Samuel Johnson
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
if not try then catch
~ Ahmad Moawad
Don't think you can act perfectly. A perfect person doesn't exist. Always strive to give your best effort, and that's it.
~ Eraldo Banovac
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
~ William Faulkner
Aspire to be who you most admire
~ Deborah A. Carr
You can strive in life with courage, faith and hope.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes.
~ Amit Kalantri
You won't ever know, unless you try!
~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett
We build an infinite variety of imaginary games. Groups of people gather together, agree what symbols they're going to use to mean "status," then strive to achieve it.
~ Will Storr
some might say: 'Fragmentation of cities, religions, political systems, conflict in the form of wars, general violence, fratricide, etc., are the reality. Wholeness is only an ideal, toward which we should perhaps strive.' But this is not what is being said here. Rather, what should be said is that wholeness is what is real, and that fragmentation is the response of this whole to man's action, guided by illusory perception, which is shaped by fragmentary thought.
~ David Bohm
this agonizing double consciousness: the awareness that the highest things one has to strive for are also, ultimately, wrong; but at the same time, the feeling that this is simply the nature of reality.
~ David Graeber
endeavor's nobility is ability, action's nobility is timing. When you never strive you never go wrong.
~ David Hinton
Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.
~ Arsenius the Great
We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that's what I strive to do and pray to do every day.
~ Barack Obama
There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
~ Ha Jin
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't
~ William Shakespeare
I try to be a good guy and I fall short sometimes, but I use Christ as an example.
~ Donny Osmond
You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor