Strive Quotes

Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?

Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.

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

Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.

Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing.

There will always be something to strive for. My hope is for the heart to strive forever.

I don't think racism can be eliminated in my lifetime ... or my children's or grandchildren's. But I think it's something we have to strive for. I'm going to keep working toward that day coming.

Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

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

Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.

When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights.

Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.

All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.

Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

If you strive for excellence, success will follow

Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.

When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.

If you strive only to avoid the darkness or to cling to the light, you cannot live in balance. Try striving to be conscious of all that you are.

We must strive to be like the moon

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

You can't be striving to please; you must be striving to get to the heart of the matter.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

The ideal we serve and strive to attain could never be evolved from us were it not potentially involved in our nature.

… The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. … The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.

Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.

You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory.

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.

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

Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.

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

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want

I think both nature and grace live within everyone, and I always strive to be in a world of grace and compassion.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

The only dreams that matter are the ones you have when you're awake.

And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.