Strive Quotes - Page 24

• I am not impressed with what people own. But I’m impressed with what they achieve. I’m proud to be a physician. Always strive to be the best in your field…. Don’t chase money. If you are the best in your field, money will find you.

  Thomas J. Stanley

  People, Physicians, Proud

  Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko (1996). “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy”, p.207, Government Institutes

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• We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Exercise, Thinking

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• Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Games, Perfection

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• You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.

  Beryl Markham

  Dog, Loneliness, Book

  Beryl Markham (2015). “West With The Night”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Motivational, Men, New Day

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.346, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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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?

  Winston Churchill

  Giving, Gone, Noble

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.90, Da Capo Press

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• ...in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Thinking, Way, Praying

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: Number 3 in series”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

  Hermann Hesse

  Perfection, Way, Should

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.82, Macmillan

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• Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great hollowness left where something lovely and solid used to be. ...There is something fundamentally insatiable about being human, as though we come into the world with a kind of built-in tension between the experience of being hungry, which is a condition of striving and yearning, and the experience of being fed, which may offer temporary satisfaction but always gives way to new strivings, new yearnings.

  Caroline Knapp

  Giving, Missing, Lovely

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• In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Order, Fire

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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• I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Men, Nurse, Looks

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.317, Ballantine Books

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• I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts?

  Voltaire

  Heart, Hug, Weakness

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• Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd believes that if it cannot see to the bottom of something it must be profound. It is so timid and dislikes going into the water.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Profound, Water

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• The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.

  John Newton

  Gay, Shining, Looks

  John Newton (1847). “One Hundred and Twenty Nine Letters from the Rev. John Newton ... to the Rev. William Bull, of Newport Pagnell: Written During a Period of Thirty-two Years, from 1773 to 1805 ...”, p.5

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• If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself. A free man who lives among the ignorant strives as far as he can to avoid their favors. A free man acts honestly, not deceptively. Only free man are genuinely useful to one another and can form true friendships. And it's absolutely permissible, by the highest right of Nature, for everyone to employ clear reason to determine how to live in a way that will allow him to flourish.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Men, Ignorant, Way

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• There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't

  William Shakespeare

  House, Temples, Spirit

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.67

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  Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Meaningful, Silly, Healthy

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• I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

  Charles Dickens

  Past, Scrooge, Three

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

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• You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

  Ha Jin

  Dog, Heart, Flesh

  FaceBook post by Ha Jin from Feb 17, 2017

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• Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.

  Alain de Botton

  Goal, Anxiety, Promise

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.197, Vintage

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• Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

  Albert Ellis

  Real, Self, Order

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• Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.

  Brandon Mull

  Decision, Important, Tools

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.1121, Simon and Schuster

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• Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway? – diversity is the word. Let man keep his many parts and you'll have no tyrant states . Why, if they follow this conformity business they'll end up by forcing me, an invisible man, to become white, which is not a color but the lack of one. Must I strive toward colorlessness? But seriously, and without snobbery, think of what the world would lose if that should happen. America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.

  Ralph Ellison

  Passion, Men, Thinking

  "Invisible Man".

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• We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Never Quit, Quitting, Assumption

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• I fear I must agree," Magnus murmured. He pressed a hand over his heart and his new peacock-blue waistcoast. "I strive to find some respect in my heart for you, but alas! It seems an impossible quest.

  Cassandra Clare

  Heart, Blue, Hands

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