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• Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Justice, Community

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• Strive to make every person feel special. After all, every person you meet is made in the image of God.

  Joel Osteen

  God, Christian, Religious

  Joel Osteen (2012). “Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.

  Marisha Pessl

  Heart, Dark, Boxes

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• In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it's books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it's yours.

  Michael Jackson

  Book, Mean, Hard Work

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• Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.

  Brenda Ueland

  Time, Inspiration, Energy

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• Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

  David Bly

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perfection

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• It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

  Henry Ford

  Business, Mean, Men

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• Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nurture their love carefully, remembering that your children need models, not critics, and your own progress will hasten when you constantly strive to present your best side to your children. And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.

  Og Mandino

  Love, Family, Success

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.64, Bantam

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• Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and achieve personal happiness. The worthy goals of civilization can only be achieved by freedom-loving individuals. When government uses force, liberty is sacrificed and the goals are lost. It is freedom that is the source of all creative energy.

  Ron Paul

  Freedom, Government, Civilization

  Ron Paul Video Address Announcing 2008 Presidential Exploratory Committee, blog.4president.org. February 19, 2007.

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• Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Inspiring, Graduation, Impact

  "Gettysburg College Graduation Speech". www.seventeen.com. April 6, 2018.

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• I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have them in circumstances where a duty makes it imperative; and in the ordinary course of life one has to know these weaknesses, prudently take them into account, and strive to turn them to good purpose; for they are all capable of being put to some good purpose.

  Simone Weil

  Happiness, Fighting, Thinking

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.5, Routledge

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• A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Perseverance, Practice

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
  Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
  Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
  Where pity is, for pity makes the world
  Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

  Edwin Arnold

  Life, Strong, Noble

  Sir Edwin Arnold, SBP Editors (2017). “The Light of Asia: The Great Renunciation”, p.108, Samaira Book Publishers

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• He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hands, Generosity

  "Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Prop. 66, 1677.

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• The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

  Hermann Hesse

  Music, Attitude, Destiny

  "The Glass Bead Game". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1943.

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• For us who live in cities Nature is not natural. Nature is supernatural. Just as monks watched and strove to get a glimpse of heaven, so we watch and strive to get a glimpse of earth. It is as if men had cake and wine every day but were sometimes allowed common bread.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Nature, Wine, Men

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• Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Children, Inspiration, Parenting

  "Letters to mothers".

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• True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Spring, Patriotic

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Rest In Peace, Lying, Believe

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• We proclaim our commitment to continue to strive for the establishment of lasting world peace.

  Iccho Itoh

  Peace, Commitment, World

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• Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life which can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends. And whoever has sole control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served, which values are to be rates higher and which lower, in short, what men should believe and strive for.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Mean, Men

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 7 : Economic Control and Totalitarianism, 1940 - 1943.

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• Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Art, Athlete

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• We needed to be uncompromising with our workforce, to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and ever-changing government mandates. Striving to comply with every law does not mean agreeing with every law. But, even when faced with laws we think are counter-productive, we must first comply. Only then, from a credible position, can we enter into a dialogue with regulatory agencies to demonstrate alternatives that are more beneficial. If these efforts fail, we can then join with others in using education and/or political efforts to change the law.

  Charles Koch

  Change, Mean, Thinking

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• Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

  Sean O'Casey

  Men, Law, Goes On

  Sean O'Casey (2011). “Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star”, p.185, Faber & Faber

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