Strive Quotes - Page 18

• Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wwe, Innovation, Kind

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• I realize that the strivings of the Polish people gave rise, and still do so, to the feelings of understanding and solidarity all over the world.

  Lech Walesa

  People, Understanding, Feelings

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• I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Dream, Father, Afterlife

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• The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Hands, Design

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1925). “Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete 1925 "Wendingen" Series”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Way, Realizing, Should

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• When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.

  Gary Zukav

  Loss, Losing, Affection

  "Looking Back on Valentine’s Day" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed.

  David A. Bednar

  Book, Heart, Pathways

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• Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation.

  David A. Bednar

  Hands, Soul, Important

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• Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.

  David A. Bednar

  Thanksgiving, Blessed, Goal

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• Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Intelligent, Offering, Seductive

  Michael Eric Dyson (2010). “Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will be the joy and how much deeper the appreciation then after enduring in patience and faith now.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Appreciation, Heart, Blessing

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• Google is in a position where it doesn't even have to strive to become a hip, conscious choice. Brands are temporary fads. Functionality is forever. Google just has to 'be,' and everyone will end up there sooner or later.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Choices, Forever, Google

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• With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

  Max Ehrmann

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Kings, Rain

  William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.836

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• Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?

  Caroline Knapp

  Smart, Ambitious, Enough

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• It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Psychological Health, Self

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.

  Ian Mcewan

  Life, Unique, Thinking

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.36, Random House

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• I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

  Madeleine Albright

  Success, Guarantees, Way

  "Madam Secretary". Book by Madeleine Albright, 2003.

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• People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity. Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.

  Ruskin Bond

  Taken, Simple, Thinking

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• Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

  Charles Baxter

  Mean, Always Trying, Quality

  "The Feast of Love: A Novel". Book by Charles Baxter, May 1, 2001.

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• Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace

  Hermann Hesse

  Light, Two, Perfection

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• The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind would sweep away obtuse padding.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Art, Nature, Light

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• God helps him who strives hard.

  Euripides

  Helping, Strife, God Help

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• I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

  Plotinus

  Giving, Giving Back, Divine

  Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.2645, Delphi Classics

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• Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human...I told Mom my own theory of why we like birds - of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

  Douglas Coupland

  Mom, Unique, People

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