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“Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.”

Men Want Overcoming Longing Strive Positive Atheism Invention Fantastic

Author:Eric Hoffer

“We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.”

Firsts Heart Self Hard Love Is Cases Ready Judging Self Love Thirds Overcoming Strive Defeat Sentences Flattery Jury Executioners Sophistry

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.”

Hard Virtue Overcoming Adversity Strive Encounters Disposition Eloquent

Author:Ted Malloch

“We can paint unrealistic pictures of the juggler--displaying her now as a problem-free paragon of glamour and now as a modern hag.Or we can see in the juggler a real person who strives to overcome the obstacles that nature and society put in her path and who does so with vigor and determination.”

Persons Doe Real Problem Path Modern Determination Overcoming Paint Strive Obstacles Strife Glamour Vigor Real Person Jugglers Paragon Problem Free

Book:Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

Source: Juggling: The Unexpected Advantages of Balancing Career and Home for Women and Their Families

“Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.”

Overcoming Strive Ruthless

Author:Petrarch

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

“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.”

“History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.”

Goal Differences Common Teach Path Strength Overcoming Unity Strive Brotherhood Quests Caution Common Goal

Author:Haile Selassie

“Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.”

Way Should Seems Desire Process Goal Awareness Promise Anxiety Overcoming Strive Definitions Resolution Respite

Book:Status Anxiety

Source: Status Anxiety

“Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.”

Want Real Self Life Is Desire Order Next Difficult Goal Challenges Goes On Overcoming Difficulty Strive Endeavor Innate New Challenges

Author:Albert Ellis

“The best soldiers are not warlike; the best fighters do not lose their temper. The greatest conquerors are those who overcome their enemies without strife. The greatest directors of men are those who yield place to others. This is called the Virtue of not striving, the capacity for directing mankind; this is being the compeer of Heaven. It was the highest goal of the ancients.”

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Author:Laozi

“Do not fear the challenges of life, but approach them patiently, with faith in God. He will reward your faith with power not only to endure, but also to overcome hardships, disappointments, trials, and struggles of daily living. Through diligently striving to live the law of God and with faith in Him, we will not be diverted from our eternal course.”

Law Courses Fear Challenges Struggle Eternal Approach Overcoming Eternity Rewards Strive Endure Disappointment Trials Hardship Faith In God Do Not Fear Daily Living

Author:Rex D. Pinegar

“Karate-do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, enabling one to face the world honestly, while externally developing strength to the point where one may overcome even ferocious wild animals. Mind and technique become one in true karate.”

World Mind May Faces Animal Clear Conscience Overcoming Train Strive Technique Honestly Developing Strife Enabling Karate Wild Animal Clear Conscience

Author:Gichin Funakoshi

“Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ's strongest disciples.”

Turns Christ Doubt Overcoming Strive Strongest Disciple

Book:Light for the Path

Source: Light for the Path