Strive Quotes - Page 27

• By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.

  Aberjhani

  People, Goal, Humanity

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.79, Lulu.com

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• I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is normal-so we can't know for sure what your 'normal' is even like. But so long as we can learn to love ourselves, I'm not sure how much it matters whether we're normal or autistic.

  Naoki Higashida

  Inspiring, Long, Autism

  Naoki Higashida (2013). “The Reason I Jump: one boy's voice from the silence of autism: one boy's voice from the silence of autism”, Hachette UK

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• Yeah I want it all, that's why I strive for it

  Drake

  Success, Perseverance, Determination

  Song: Successful, 2009

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• You have your goals. They may be small goals or they may be large goals. As you strive to achieve your goals, sometimes your conditions change and your goals will change as well.

  Jean Charest

  Determination, Goal, May

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• The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Educational, Lying, Men

  Woodrow Wilson (1896). “Mere Literature, and Other Essays”

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• Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Suicidal, Alive

  "The Latest Decalogue" l. 11 (1862)

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• Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your "passion" or your "bliss," I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"

  Tim Ferriss

  Live Life, Passion, Circles

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• When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to beat myself, basically. People find that hard to believe because we've had such a bias to always strive to win things. If you win something and you haven't put everything into it, you haven't actually achieved anything at all. When you've had to work hard for something and you've got the best you can out of yourself on that given day, that's where you get satisfaction from.

  Ian Thorpe

  Motivational, Believe, Hard Work

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• I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

  Denny Crum

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Player

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• It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

  Cat Osterman

  Inspirational, Softball, Perfect

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• What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything.

  Evgeni Plushenko

  Pain, Heart, Winning

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• During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us, and then strive to train our heart to bear and forgive these things patiently, in imitation of our Saviour. This is the way to acquire a strong spirit.

  Philip Neri

  Forgiveness, Strong, Prayer

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• For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Suffering Pain, Pain And Suffering, Endure

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.293

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• A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

  Briana Scurry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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• Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

  Samuel Daniel

  Grief, Light, Silence

  Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.236

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• Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve .

  Bob Parsons

  Business, Ambition, People

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• There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

  Anthony de Mello

  Children, Powerful, Ambition

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.73, Image

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• Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.

  Alice Morse Earle

  Time, Memories, Believe

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• Man errs as long as he strives.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Philosophy, Men

  Faust pt. 1 "Prolog im Himmel" (1808)

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• Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Law, Individual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.21

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• A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive, Attitude, Integrity

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1960). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

  Zhuangzi

  Happiness, Happy, Perfect

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• The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family - striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.

  Kofi Annan

  Family, Future, Goal

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• Let us continue to strive together for a more inclusive, democratic, and peaceful future for us all.

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  Future, Peaceful, Democracy

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• Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hate, Self, Hatred

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