Best 350 quotes in «strive quotes» category

Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.

But since the world, which thou art to strive against, is not without thee, but within thee, it follows, that it is also to be conquered not without, but within thee.

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves.

Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.

Don't be satisfied... always try to strive for more.

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

Don’t strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

Do what you may, strive as earnestly as you can, live as excellently as you please, make what sacrifices you choose, be as eminent as you can for everything that is lovely and of good repute, yet none of these things can be pleaseing to God unless they be mixed with faith.

Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war.

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.

Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.

For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

God's word is : He who strives never perishes.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.

Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

I am fully conscious that a complete presentation of the regions visited is a task beyond my power. All I can strive to do is convey an illusion-my own illusion

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward.

Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.

Hell strives with grace for conquest in my breast. What shall I do to shun the snares of death?

Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it.

I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.

I continuously strive to touch lives.

I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it.

If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person. I'm not just breasts or ass or thighs - I'm a whole being! And it just seems like women aren't necessarily striving to be the whole of themselves.

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

If you do your job right, no one realizes you did your job, and that's a good thing. You strive for that.

If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

I'm certainly not saying that my life is what success is all about. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.

I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation.

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

I'm always striving to do more. Whatever I accomplish, it's not enough. I don't get satisfied.

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

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.