Best 350 quotes in «strive quotes» category

A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.

As we strive to teach others we must have the humility to acknowledge that we too still have much to learn.

A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

Awareness cannot be at the end of a process because the very striving, and the process itself, is arising and appearing in the Awareness which is timelessly present.

Be cheerful . Strive to be happy.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

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

Better the arrow that missed the lion than the one that killed a rabbit.

Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else.

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I continuously strive to touch lives.

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.

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 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.