Strive Quotes - Page 15

• I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.

  Mary J. Blige

  Hard Work, Acting, Way

  AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.

  Emily Blunt

  Space, Trying, Crowds

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• One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dark, Two, Black History

  "Strivings of the Negro People" (1897)

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• In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

  Edward de Bono

  Cost, Be Prepared, Deals

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Success, Congratulations, Appreciate

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• Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

  Robert Browning

  Success, Men, Deeds Done

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.89, Wildside Press LLC

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• Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe.

  Julie Burchill

  Mother, Crosses, Nicole

  "Unvarnished versus airbrushed" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2008.

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• We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

  George W. Bush

  Peace, War, Differences

  United Nations General Assembly Address, delivered 21 September 2004, New York, NY

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  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.

  Nicolas Cage

  Acting, Criminals, Actors

  "Out There with Nicholas Cage". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. May 1, 1996.

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• For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

  John Calvin

  Godly, Misery, Strife

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• The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Lying, Sleep

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• Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Men, Perfection, Excellence

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• Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Sympathy, Valentines Day

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.348, Classic Books Company

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• Men should strive to think much and know little.

  Democritus

  Men, Thinking, Littles

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• Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

  Patrick Duffy

  Fall, Good Luck, Hard Work

  "Patrick Duffy Is the Girl Next Door's Dad". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. February 3, 2006.

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• Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Inspiring, Perseverance

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.152, Penguin

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• Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?

  Will Ferrell

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• By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

  Ron Fournier

  Suffering, President, Defense

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• Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Educational, Philosophy

  Sigmund Freud (2010). “The Interpretation of Dreams”, p.268, Basic Books

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• They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

  Stephen Fry

  Bears, Comedy, Cents

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• The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

  John W. Gardner

  Men, Ideas, Goal

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.171, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

  Henry Louis Gates

  People, Culture, Study

  Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2012). “The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader”, p.546, Basic Books

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• Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Looks, Amusement

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• Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Hope, Fear, Lying

  Stephen Jay Gould (2006). “The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)”, p.36, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Self Improvement, Obscure, Brevity

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