Strive Quotes

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein

Success, Rather, Value

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
Abraham Lincoln

Work, God, Nation

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha

Chaos, Diligence, Inherent

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Abraham Lincoln

Worry, Worthy, Recognized

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
Baltasar Gracian

Life, Friendship, Good

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda

Time, Truth, Live

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
Pat Riley

Best, Positive, Attitude

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Mahatma Gandhi

Everything, Cannot, Results

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. Wilson

Best, Alone, Failure

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
Barack Obama

God, Best, Help

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.
Will Smith

Greatest, Reason, Here

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Life, Good, Men

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Today, Off, Point

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.
Sun Tzu

Live, Victory, Able

Only the insecure strive for security.
Wayne Dyer

Insecure, Security

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
Sigmund Freud

Conduct, Eliminate, Accord

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
Sigmund Freud

Children, Needs, Satisfy

Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.
Mitt Romney

Life, Faith, Good

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo

Art, Freedom, Society

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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Science, Yourself, Give

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Find, Seek, Yield

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Wendell Berry

Good, Bad, Past

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

May, State, Miracle

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Beauty, May, Hand

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Samuel Johnson

Human, Conquer, Highest

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
Horace

Become, Obscure, Brief

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
Dan Millman

Success, Fear, Successful

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
George Whitefield

Forward, Before, Stop

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.
LL Cool J

Hard, Win, Trying

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould

Life, Hope, Few

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