Strive Quotes - Page 23

• These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Feelings, Too Much

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.132, Bantam

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• We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.

  David Gemmell

  Dark, Fighting, Dust

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• Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

  Jimmy Carter

  Failure, Reality, Challenges

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith”, p.221, Three Rivers Press

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• You always have to strive

  Marcus Luttrell

  Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson (2010). “Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• To grant all a man's wishes is to take away his dreams and ambitions. Life is only worth living if you have something to strive for. To aim at.

  P.B. Kerr

  Dream, Ambition, Men

  P.B. Kerr (2010). “Children of the Lamp #6: The Five Fakirs of Faizabad”, p.27, Scholastic Inc.

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• When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.

  Roald Dahl

  Writing, Important, Modesty

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.41, Penguin

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• Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Witty, Talking, Listening

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• Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Goal, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Frustration, Vanity

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• To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving Up, Goal, Challenges

  Dalai Lama (2012). “Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World”, p.97, Random House

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• True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.

  Paulo Freire

  Lying, Fighting, Hands

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation.

  Guy Debord

  Order, Organization, People

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• I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

  Charles Dickens

  Philosophical, Heart, Past

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.91

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• Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?' The doorkeeper perceives that the man is nearing his end and his hearing is failing, so he bellows in his ear: 'No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended for you. I am now going to shut it.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, Law, Doors

  Franz Kafka (1970). “The Trial”

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• It is not about striving for immortality, but about accepting mortality.

  J. K. Rowling

  Immortality, Mortality, Accepting

  "Rowling Chats about Deathly Hallows". Interview with Lev Grossman, techland.time.com. July 31, 2007.

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• No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.

  Og Mandino

  Son, Serenity, Mind

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.23, Bantam

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• Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character - always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it... Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive to unattainable heights.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Character, Blessing, Self

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• Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.

  William Martin

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.

  Portia de Rossi

  Would Be, Add, Hook

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Ignorance, Effort, Missing

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Brandon Sanderson Sampler: The Way of Kings and Mistborn”, p.71, Macmillan

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• We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

  Terence McKenna

  Years, Unspeakable, Millions

  "The Transcendental Object at the End of Time/ Taglines". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Freedom, Justice, Mirages

  "New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideas". Book by Friedrich Hayek. Part 2: "Politics". Chapter 8: "Economic Freedom and Representative Government", pp. 110-111, 1978.

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• Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path... But each of us - experiments of the depths - strives toward his own destiny. We can understand one another; but each of us is able to interpret himself to himself alone.

  Hermann Hesse

  Destiny, Men, Depth

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• In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who strive to bring their own freedom under obedience to His divine purpose. All that is done by the will of God in secret is done for His glory and for the good of those whom He has chosen to share in His glory.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Order, Evil

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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• Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Mean, Creating, Mad

  Daisaku Ikeda (2001). “For the Sake of Peace: Seven Paths to Global Harmony, a Buddhist Perspective”

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