Best 350 quotes in «strive quotes» category

The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.

The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts.

The end goal of all of this striving is to live joyfully, and that there are often more direct ways of achieving this than conforming to rigid standards set by social custom.

The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.

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

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

The more for whom we strive to serve, the greater effectiveness we will have.

The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature-and struggle never to let him discover otherwise.

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

The more you strive and search for happiness, the more you overlook the possibility that it is here already.

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.

The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.

The painter strives and competes with nature.

The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.

The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness.

The philosopher strives to find the liberating word, that is, the word that finally permits us to grasp what up to now has intangibly weighed down upon our consciousness.

There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they look like Mel Gibson, still striving for drunken charm in an L.A. County mug shot, after getting picked up on a DWI charge that included anti-semitic slurs directed at the police.

There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].

The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.

To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His creatures and make Him no God at all.

Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.

Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign lands.

The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.

The worst thing that can happen to you is not striving for what you want.

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled.

Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.

We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.