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• I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally.

  Saul Bellow

  Men, Long, Giving

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• Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Disappointment, Fear

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• We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We’re more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Believe

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• As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

  Maurice Sendak

  Writing, Artist, Imagination

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• We need to continue to strive to tell these different stories.”

  Arwa Damon

  Different, Needs, Stories

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• The Humane Society of the United States works with local Humane Societies across the country. We don't control every local Humane Society in this nation. These organizations strive to the greatest degree to provide homes for animals and to encourage adoption, to spay and neuter animals. And if a decision is made to euthanize, it is a failure of society, not the local organizations who are striving to do their best.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Country, Home, Animal

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• I’m constantly in doubt about what I’m doing, I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies. I’m not striving for happiness, I’m trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constant rethinking, and reevaluating what you’re doing, working and working until you feel it’s finished. And that’s an interesting point too, that you’ve got to know when to stop. Sometimes there’s a magical moment when everything comes together.

  John Zorn

  Children, Yuppies, Interesting

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• The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which impart sufficient strength to let the past be but the past. A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

  Robert E. Lee

  Character, Past, Men

  "Definition of a Gentleman". Memorandum found in Lee's papers after his death. "Lee the American" by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 233, xroads.virginia.edu. 1912.

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• I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it.

  Harry Houdini

  Wall, Pain, Bruises

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• Basketball isn't easy. All my life I've been striving to make myself better. It's a full time commitment. To be the best, you have to work the hardest. You have to chase what seems impossible over and over and over again, because giving up is not an option, and when you feel like you've reached your limit, it's only the beginning, that's when the time to dig deep, to find the courage to push some more, because if you've got the drive, the discipline, and the resolve to do what it takes to make yourself great, then the rewards are endless.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Giving Up, Commitment

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• Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think you have enough; it always destroys you by making you strive ever harder for more.

  Benjamin Blech

  Thinking, Greed, Desire

  Benjamin Blech (2003). “Taking Stock: A Spiritual Guide to Rising Above Life's Financial Ups and Downs”, p.135, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.

  Roger Bannister

  Running, Athlete, Men

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• Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Men, Engineering

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• What I strive most to achieve in art is to make you forget the material. The sculptor must... communicate whatever struck his sensibility, so that a person beholding his work may experience in its entirety the emotion felt by the artist while he observed nature.

  Medardo Rosso

  Art, May, Emotion

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• The fight against Germany has now been waged for months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all labor unions and by every single Jew in the world. There are reasons for the assumption that our share in this fight is of general importance. We shall start a spiritual and material war of the whole world against Germany. Germany is striving to become once again a great nation, and to recover her lost territories as well as her colonies. But our Jewish interests call for the complete destruction of Germany.

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  Spiritual, War, Fighting

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• Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Believe, Loving Someone

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• Let us daily strive to copy our Savior's humility.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christian, Humility, Copies

  "Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew".

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• Faith is an orientation of the total person, giving purpose and goal to one's hopes and strivings, thoughts and actions.

  James W. Fowler

  Faith, Giving, Goal

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• In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.

  Benjamin Zander

  Goal, World, Measurement

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• Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.

  Honore de Balzac

  Kindness, Rocks, Hands

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• When I say 'The Hunger For More', it could be referring to more success. It could be more money, or respect, more power, more understanding. All of those things lead up to that hunger for more, because my more isn't everybody else's more. I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. God forbid anything happen to me, my family is straight. So anything that happens after this is just me progressing as a person.

  Lloyd Banks

  God, Understanding, Progress

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.

  David Ben-Gurion

  People, Scary, Adults

  "Arab Leaders Urge Peace, Israel Refuses". imemc.org. March 30, 2007.

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• It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp.

  James Ramsey Ullman

  Men, Vision, Mountain

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• Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary.

  Linji Yixuan

  Spiritual, People, Noble

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• You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Way

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