Strive Quotes - Page 6

• Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

  Arianna Huffington

  Women, Believe, Creativity

  "The Female Woman". Book by Arianna Huffington, 1973.

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• All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

  Derrick Bell

  People, Ethics, Easy

  Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.37, A&C Black

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• ...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Men, Finest

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

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• "Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention.

  Josip Novakovich

  Writing, Achieve, Ominous

  Josip Novakovich (2008). “Fiction Writer's Workshop”, p.126, Writer's Digest Books

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• Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.

  Jan Carlzon

  Mean, Excellence, Quality

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• Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

  Edward Abbey

  Symphony, Perfect, Cases

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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• The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

  Carl Rogers

  Tendencies, Organisms

  Carl Rogers (2012). “Client Centred Therapy (New Ed)”, p.353, Hachette UK

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• Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

  Teresa of Avila

  Heart, Eye, Soul

  Teresa of Avila (2011). “The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, vol 2”, p.80, ICS Publications

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• Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

  John Milton

  Marriage, Office, May

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.81

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• I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.

  Kenny Burrell

  Music, Honesty, Jazz

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• We all strive to find something unique and special that we are passionate about that separates us from the rest.

  Carissa Moore

  Unique, Special, Passionate

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• The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
  The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Frustration, Perfect, Excellence

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• The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

  Alexander Lowen

  Powerful, Men, Goal

  Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

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• Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Education, Giving Up, Science

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

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• The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Wise, Men, Goal

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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• I would want to teach my children someday that they should strive to be successful.

  Michael Grimm

  Children, Successful, Want

  "As Romney breaks away, the 'Reagan Rule' of not attacking fellow Republicans is tossed aside". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. January 10, 2012.

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• I don't even bother trying to picture a perfect world, because I don't think that perfection is something to strive for. I prefer imperfection. That's what makes things special. You know, things that change

  Anthony Kiedis

  Thinking, Special You, Perfect

  Interview with Mark Marvel, anthonykiedis.net. October 1994.

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• As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

  Roy Barnes

  Responsibility, Perfection, Decision

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• Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Rights, Declaration, Humans

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

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• I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

  Charles Handy

  Success, Believe, Insecurity

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• A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Leadership, Vision, Progress

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• To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mad, Argument, Dangerous

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• In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.

  Butler Lampson

  Disaster, Resources, Optimum

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• Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Achievement, Agnostic, Immortality

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.210, Courier Corporation

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• The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.

  Baldur von Schirach

  Body

  "German Bodies: Race and Representation After Hitler". Book by Uli Linke, p. 47, 1999.

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