Strive Quotes

Nicole Kidman in particular seems to bring out the butt-kisser in the sassiest of hackettes, as they ceaselessly strive to portray her as some sort of cross between Mother Teresa and Marilyn Monroe.

We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

Faith is what I live by in everything that I do. I strive to give glory to God in every aspect of my life, even my films.

Actors strive to be part of something like 'Twilight' and what 'Twilight' is, is unbelievable.

I had to work 10 times harder. People expect so much of you, because they want to see if you can strive and stand on your own.

In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource at our disposal, to eliminate suffering.

Compassion is very important, especially right now in America. We all need to strive as human beings to understand each other and ourselves better.

Do not strive for the shine of jade, but clatter like stone.

The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

The painter strives and competes with nature.

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

God's word is : He who strives never perishes.

A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope.

A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

We strive always to have a beginner's mind.

We strive all the time to give our life its form, but we do so by copying willy-nilly, like a drawing, the features of the person that we are and not of the person we should like to be.

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.

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!

Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.

I think that happiness is a great thing to strive for, but very difficult to maintain - people are always striving for something different, and something better.

I like that about human nature, that people are always striving to do better, and find something new.

Striving can be more important than arriving.

I'm hoping that my entrepreneurial side will have me at a place where I don't have to do anything. That's what I'm striving for.

As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.

Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

Thoughtfulness begins with seeing. My job as a photographer is to make that seeing easier. What we appreciate, what fascinates us, we will strive to preserve.

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.

I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.

Our God does not indulge us, but He is merciful toward our weaknesses as He strives to tutor us.

You can criticize something you strive for, and you can avoid something you dream about.

In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

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

It's very hard to find good and wholesome, edifying and challenging writing for the students to perform. In my classroom I strive to do that as best as I can.

For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.

It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.

As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

Most of what we strive for in our modern life uses the apparatus of goal seeking that was originally set up to seek goals in the state of nature.

I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

Let's contend no more, Love, Strive nor weep: All be as before Love, - Only sleep.

To me, no matter what we do, we all strive for that experience.