Strive Quotes - Page 16

• I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  Spring, People, Democracy

  "Hamas ditches Assad, backs Syrian revolt". www.reuters.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Determination, Mean, Equality

  "The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich August von Hayek, (Ch. 11), 1944.

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• I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

  Bill Hicks

  Believe, Writing, Heart

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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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• Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Blessed, Goal, Age

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• Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Goal, Mind

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• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

  Victor Hugo

  Thinking, Cases

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• You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

  LL Cool J

  Winning, Trying, Matter

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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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• The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

  Andrew Johnson

  Government, Goal, People

  "Andrew Johnson, Plebeian and Patriot". Book by Robert Watson Winston, 1928.

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• To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Trying

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.343

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• In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

  Franz Kafka

  Happiness, Laughter, Believe

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

  Franz Kafka

  Strength, Prayer, Men

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

  Islom Karimov

  Kind Deeds, Justice, Liberty

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Walking Dead, Police, Looks

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• If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.

  Tony Kushner

  Gay, Hands, Psychics

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• Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

  Ann Landers

  Class, Trying, Needs

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• Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.

  Lucy Larcom

  Atoms, Alive, Earth

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

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• We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Land, People

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.213, UNM Press

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• The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Jobs, People

  Keynote Address to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 28 February 2009, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.

  Kellan Lutz

  Twilight, Actors, Unbelievable

  Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com. July 1, 2010.

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• If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

  John Lydon

  Writing, People, Competition

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• A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Simple, Men, Good Man

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.99, Race Point Publishing

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• Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.

  Jose Marti

  Together, Privilege, Achieve

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

  Andre Maurois

  Men, Affection, Like You

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