Strive Quotes - Page 22

• The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be -- but how will I know unless I try? Sure, it's scary, but what's the alternative? Stagnation - A safer, more terrible form of death. Not of the body, but of the spirit. An animal knows what it is, and accepts it. A man may know what he is -- but he questions. He dreams. He strives. Changes. Grows.

  Chris Claremont

  Dream, Animal, Winning

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• It doth make a man better,' quoth Robin Hood, 'to bear of those noble men so long ago. When one doth list to such tales, his soul doth say, 'put by thy poor little likings and seek to do likewise.' Truly, one may not do as nobly one's self, but in the striving one is better.

  Howard Pyle

  Men, Self, Noble Man

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• Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

  George Washington

  Humble, Modesty, Argument

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.412

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• … The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. … The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.

  David O. McKay

  Men, Calling, Fellow Man

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• Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Jobs, Love You, Love Is

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• So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

  David Mitchell

  Littles, Belief, Worthy

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• Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Eye, Piano

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• ...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214

  Dean Koontz

  Beauty, Beautiful, Moon

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• You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much that kind of person to others. Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.

  Barbara Pym

  Depressing, Littles, Too Much

  Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.39, Penguin

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• prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Race, Goal

  Philip Yancey (2011). “Prayer”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dream, Missing Someone, Mistake

  Kelley Armstrong (2011). “The Gathering”, p.157, Penguin Group

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• Here the ways of men divide. If you wish to strive for peace of soul and happiness, then believe; if you wish to be a disciple of truth, then inquire.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Truth, Believe, Men

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• Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

  Helen Keller

  Life, Happy, Education

  Helen Keller (2012). “The Story of My Life”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Nature, Tinkering, World

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• For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Army, Risk

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.51, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.

  Andy Andrews

  Successful, Should, Destination

  Andy Andrews (2011). “The Final Summit: A Quest to Find the One Principle That Will Save Humanity”, p.73, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Don't strive for love, be it.

  Hugh Prather

  Love Is

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.159, Bantam

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• I do not know why I care," Drizzt answered honestly. His eyes turned back to his ancient homeland, where loyalty was merely a device to gain an advantage over a common foe. "Perhaps I care because I strive to be different from my people," he said, as much to himself as to Bruenor. "Perhaps I care because I am different from my people. I may be more akin to race of the surface...that is my hope at least. I care because I have to care about something.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Loyalty, Eye, Race

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “The Crystal Shard: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.44, Wizards of the Coast

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• I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Fighting, Cities

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• Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

  Matthew Kelly

  Noble, Climate, Modern

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.11, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.

  Brené Brown

  Differences, Addiction, Anxiety

  "The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, August 27, 2010.

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• Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe.

  Carl Sagan

  Brave, Enough, Strife

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Humanity, Promise

  "Unemployment". Winston Churchill's speech at Kinnaird Hall in Dundee, Scotland (October 10, 1908), as quoted in Winston Churchill "Liberalism and the Social Problem" (p. 87), 1909.

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• There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.

  Terry Goodkind

  Thinking, Effort, Liberty

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.514, Head of Zeus

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• I'm not worthy of that," I said. I might be human now, but I understand how powerful a heavenly creature Carter was. "I don't deserve that much regard." He reached out and tipped my chin up. "You do, Georgina. And if you don't believe me now, then strive to be. Live you life. Be kind. Love those you know. Love those you don't know. be worthy of your soul." A tear escaped, rolling down my cheek and probably messing up my mortal mascara. "Thank you, Carter. Thank you for everything.

  Richelle Mead

  Powerful, Believe, Soul

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