Strife Quotes - Page 18

• He loves his country best who strives to make it best.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Country, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

  Hermann Hesse

  Music, Attitude, Destiny

  "The Glass Bead Game". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1943.

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• Love taught him shame, and shame with love at strife
  Soon taught the sweet civilities of life.

  John Dryden

  Life, Sweet, Taught

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden: now first collected in eighteen volumes. Illustrated with notes, historical, critical, and explanatory, and a life of the author”, p.458

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• Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.

  Laozi

  Humility, Strive, Goodness

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• The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without strife. The greatest directors of men are those who yield place to others. This is called the Virtue of not striving, the capacity for directing mankind; this is being the compeer of Heaven. It was the highest goal of the ancients.

  Laozi

  Humility, Men, Yield

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• The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for all is to be derived rather from co-operation than from strife. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mind, Wish, Armor

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.

  Michelangelo

  Religious, Perfect, Soul

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• Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Party, Prejudice, Null

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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• Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

  Eric Hoffer

  Work, Ambition, Men

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• We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Perseverance, Men, Strive

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• We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Apples, Androids

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• It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

  Philip Sidney

  Being Strong, Stay Strong, Nature

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• We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Differences, People

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• Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

  Khalil Gibran

  Music, Spiritual, Secret

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• Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the governments as far as the Lord will permit him. That is why there is so much strife, turmoil, and confusion all over the earth. One master mind is governing the nations. It is not the president of the United States; it is not Hitler; it is not Mussolini; it is not the king or government of England or any other land; it is Satan himself.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Kings, Government, Land

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1973). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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• Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Kings, Hero, Men

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.160, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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

  Berthold Auerbach

  Fear, Justice, Strive

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• Life without meaning
  cannot be borne.
  We find a mission
  to which we're sworn
  -or answer the call
  of Death's dark horn.
  Without a gleaning
  of purpose in life,
  we have no vision,
  we live in strife,
  -or let blood fall
  on a suicide knife.

  Dean Koontz

  Suicide, Fall, Suicidal

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• They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

  Thomas More

  Education, Learning, Men

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• A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Reality, People, Important

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb.
  Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom.
  Love, which is lust, is the Main of Desire.
  Love, which is lust, is the Centric Fire.
  So man and woman will keep their trust,
  Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust.
  Yea, each with the other will lose and win,
  Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in.
  For the strife of Love's the abysmal strife,
  And the word of Love is the Word of Life.
  And they that go with the Word unsaid,
  Though they seem of the living, are damned and dead.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Running, Spring

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1970). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

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• Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.

  Al-Ghazali

  Heart, Mean, Soul

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• One of the unique aspects of rowing is that novices strive to perfect the same motions as Olympic contenders. Few other sports can make this claim. In figure skating, for instance, the novice practices only simple moves. After years of training, the skater then proceeds to the jumps and spins that make up an elite skater's program. But the novice rower, from day one, strives to duplicate a motion that he'll still be doing on the day of the Olympic finals.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Sports, Moving, Unique

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• I'd like to see a world free of strife, stress, pain, hunger, war - a cool place where everyone could live.

  Dionne Warwick

  Pain, Stress, War

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• As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.

  Leon Trotsky

  Animal, Reality, Men

  "Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism): a reply to Karl Kantsky".

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