Strive Quotes - Page 7

• I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

  Al Pacino

  Break Through, Trying, Something New

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

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• If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.

  Andrew the Apostle

  Philosophy, Goal, Pleasure

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• When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

  Robin Trower

  Believe, Moving, Special

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• All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Elude Us, Hands, Awareness

  Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (1924). “The Dance of ?iva: Essays on Indian Art and Culture”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

  Joseph Prince

  Effort, Grace, One Day

  Joseph Prince (2014). “The Power of Right Believing: 7 Keys to Freedom from Fear, Guilt and Addiction”, p.299, Hachette UK

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• Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

  Muriel Barbery

  Delight, Movement, Pleasure

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• Your task as a leader is to help others to succeed, not to strive only for your own success. If I don't trust your motives, nothing else will matter -because my primary concern is your integrity.

  David Maister

  Inspiring, Integrity, Helping Others

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• It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

  Brad Henry

  Children, Expectations, Excellence

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• When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Goal, Looking Forward, Really Living

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Fighting, Winning, Masters

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• What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!

  Floyd McClung

  Grace, Doe, Obedience

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• Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Role Models, Envy, Emulation

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• A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Wise, Mean, Men

  "The Imitation of Christ". Book by Thomas a Kempis, Book 1 Ch. 25; translation by George Stanhope, c. 1418.

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• It's so acceptably easy for a woman not to strive too hard, not to be too adventure-crazed, not to take too many risks, not to enjoy sex with full candor ... It isn't seemly for a woman to have that much zest.

  Diane Ackerman

  Sex, Adventure, Zest

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• We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Success, Race, Age

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• Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

  Melody Beattie

  Self, Perfection, Excellence

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

  Agnes Repplier

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide -- laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course -- it was striving against the stream.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Years, Feelings, Tides

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• I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.

  Zachary Levi

  Thinking, Excellence, Critics

  "Zachary Levi Talks HEROES REBORN, the TANGLED TV Series, The Nerd Machine, Comic-Con & More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• To me, I think the core values that will help create the world that we're striving to live in are constant.

  Maya Harris

  Thinking, World, Helping

  Source: www.elle.com

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• What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work?
  Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Spontaneous, Effortless

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• Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.

  Bobby Jones

  Fighting, Muscles, Relaxed

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• Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Believe, Effort, Achieve

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• What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

  Homer

  Winning, Men, Hands

  Homer (2008). “Odyssey, Homer”, Spark Publishing Group

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• Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

  Beryl Markham

  Silence, Steel, Paper

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.162, Open Road Media

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