Best 350 quotes in «strive quotes» category

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.

It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.

It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.

Let us daily strive to copy our Savior's humility.

Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

Man's restlessness makes him strive.

... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.

On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction.

One errs as long as one strives.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

Perfectionism is boring and doesn't exist-to strive for it makes you uninteresting.

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.

Perfection's awesome... So I strive for it every day.

Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved.

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. The only love that completes us is the love of God, and the love of God is the love of everyone.

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating.

So it`s always helped me to have a foundation, an ideal to strive for and goals. It`s hard for me to be disciplined and plan things.

so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it.

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

Strive always to improve the instrument.

Strive to be authentic all the time. That's sort of my philosophy on life, which applies to acting.

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.