Strive Quotes - Page 17

• The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.

  Thomas S. Monson

  God, Each Day, Way

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• We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Commitment, Years, Ebb And Flow

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• It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.

  Samantha Morton

  Children, Nice, Heart

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

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Enlightenment, Make Sense

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Strong, Quality

  "Mixed Opinions and Maxims" by Friedrich Nietzsche, aphorism 370, "The Danger in Admiration", 1879.

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• An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Motivational, Atheist, Prayer

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that’s what I strive to do and pray to do every day.

  Barack Obama

  People, Grace, Helping

  "President Obama Says: 'We achieve salvation through the grace of God'". blogs.cbn.com. September 28, 2010.

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• After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Law, Land

  "CNN Student News" with Carl Azuz, edition.cnn.com. March 24, 2010.

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• When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

  Suze Orman

  Regret, Goal, Joy

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• So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Children, Perfection, Joy

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• All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Block, Selfish

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• You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

  Pope Paul VI

  Numbers, Order, Bread

  Pope Paul VI (2007). “Christian Values and Virtues”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• America's wealth comes from the efforts of people striving for success. Take away their incentive with badmouthing success and you take away the wealth that helps us take care of the needy.

  Thomas Peterffy

  America, People, Effort

  "Rich, worried and buying ad time". politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

  Joan Rivers

  Art, Memorable, Swimming

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

  Mitt Romney

  Dream, Jobs, Apples

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Men and women of every faithб and good people with none at allб sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.

  Mitt Romney

  Men, People, Purpose

  "Romney addreses gay marriage issue at Liberty Univ, saying 'one man and one woman'". Mitt Romney's commencement address at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, www.foxnews.com. May 12, 2012.

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• The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

  Paul Ryan

  Commitment, Opportunity, Giving

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Saving the American Idea". dailysignal.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

  Robert Schumann

  Sight, Mind, Body

  Robert Schumann (2016). “Letters of Robert Schumann”, p.9, Ravenio Books

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• I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• My No. 1 goal, and what I've spent my entire life striving to achieve is to win a World Cup. I want to retire so badly with that World Cup, but if I don't, then I'll retire knowing that I've done everything I could to get it.

  Hope Solo

  Winning, Knowing, Goal

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• I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Real, Government, Decision

  President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• People striving for approval from others become phony.

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Approval Of Others, People, Phony

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

  James Taylor

  Things In Life, Important, Usual

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it.

  Cicely Tyson

  Believe, Thinking, Mountain

  "A New Mountain to Climb: Heroes I've Met and the Mountains They Climb Every Day". Book by Neal McCoy, p. 72, 2010.

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