Strive Quotes - Page 9

• The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

  Bruce Feirstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Fictional character: Elliot Carver". "Tomorrow Never Dies", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Helping Others, Greatness, World

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• Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

  Eric Hoffer

  Vivid, Awareness, Glory

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

  Albert Einstein

  Sports, Important, Our Actions

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.95, Princeton University Press

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• A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

  Bobby Ray Inman

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

  Odell Shepard

  People, Hopeless, Static

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• We should strive to understand the weakness of others.

  Ellen G. White

  Understanding, Weakness, Should

  Ellen G. White (1942). “The Ministry of Healing”, p.84, Digital Inspiration

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• Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Integrity, Age, Moral Ethics

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• The striving from servant, the blessings from Almighty God.

  Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

  Blessing, Soul, Almighty

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• There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

  John Masefield

  Beautiful, Hate, Ignorance

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• I want players who are always striving to improve.

  Gordon Strachan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Football

  "Gordon Strachan: 'And people think I've got a problem with the press...'". Interview with Richard Rae, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2010.

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• One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts.

  William Powell

  Animal, Men, Reason

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 93, 1971.

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• Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.

  Austin O'Malley

  Perfection, Sanctity, Ideals

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• A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

  Alain de Botton

  Achievement, Ordinary, Enough

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, Chapter IV, Consolation For Inadequacy, 2000.

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• Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

  Chad Harbach

  Girl, School, Striving To Be The Best

  "Fielding Questions on The Art of Fielding". Interview with Joshua Lars Weill, www.gq.com. September 2, 2011.

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• It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.

  Hosea Ballou

  Intellectual, Intellect

  Hosea Ballou (1832). “Sermons on Important Doctrinal Subjects”, p.19

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• generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Ambition, Hands, Achievement

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• Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Perfection, Unattainable, This Life

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• I don't want my personal life to change. I don't understand why people strive for fame. I know it's ironic for me to be saying this, but this will be the last one I do.

  Zach Galifianakis

  People, Ironic, Want

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

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• In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice. It is better to aim for something that you want-even though you miss it-than to get something that you didn't aim to get, and which you don't want! If we look long enough for what we want in life we are almost sure to find it, no matter what that objective may be.

  George Matthew Adams

  Sacrifice, Long, Missing

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• We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.

  Alexander Crummell

  Flower, Odor, World

  Alexander Crummell (1861). “The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...”, p.49

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• We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.

  William H. Macy

  Adversity, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. The only love that completes us is the love of God, and the love of God is the love of everyone.

  Marianne Williamson

  Lying, God Love, Only Love

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• Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

  Mason Cooley

  Death, Goal, Construction

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• If one comes across sometimes as being cold or brusque, it's simply because I'm striving for the best.

  Anna Wintour

  Cold, Sometimes, Ifs

  "Anna Wintour, Behind The Shades". "60 Minutes" with Morley Safer, www.cbsnews.com. May 14, 2009.

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