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• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Self Esteem, Giving

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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  Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

  Amy Winehouse

  Life Is, Given, Plates

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

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• Let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Civil War, Charity

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• I'm certainly not saying that my life is what success is all about. To me, success is the ongoing process of striving to become more.

  Tony Robbins

  Ongoing, Life Is, Process

  Tony Robbins (2008). “Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• We strive toward a goal, and whether we achieve it or not is important, but it's not what's most important. What matters is how we move toward that goal.

  Scott Jurek

  Moving, What Matters, Goal

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.227, A&C Black

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• Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Helping Others, Inspire, Trying

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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• Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

  Henry Royce

  Acceptance, Persistence, Creating

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• To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.

  Anna Pavlova

  Lying, Goal, Effort

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• Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Goal, Higher Goals, Higher

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• Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.

  Bob Richards

  Leadership, Sports, Winning

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• Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Happiness, Fighting, Effort

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• The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories.

  Anthony Storr

  Men, Creative, May

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• You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.

  William J. Clinton

  Happiness, Believe, Journey

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• The effort to strive for truth has to precede all
  other efforts.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Priorities, Effort

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.452, Princeton University Press

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• You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Children, Parenting, Yesterday

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Children'

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• The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

  Barbra Streisand

  Dream, Hope, Lying

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• What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Brotherhood

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• My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Kindness, Compassion, Justice

  Vachel Lindsay, Dennis Camp (1984). “The poetry of Vachel Lindsay: complete & with Lindsay's drawings”, Spoon River Poetry Pr

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• It's always beautiful to see people striving to grow.

  Patricia Arquette

  Beautiful, People, Grows

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The goal isn't innovation. The goal is effectiveness. We strive for innovation because we want to be effective.

  Tim Stevens

  Effectiveness, Goal, Innovation

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• If you strive to be perfect in everything, whether it's possible or not, you will always live a more fulfilled life.

  Behdad Sami

  Perfect, Fulfilled Life, Ifs

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• Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

  Epictetus

  Wish, Flow, Wells

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• One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

  JoAnn Ross

  Reason, Satisfied

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• Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Enthusiasm, Losing, Failing

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• If might is right, then the world will tear itself apart. We must strive to create a world in which right is might.

  Koichi Tohei

  Tears, World, Might

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