Best Strive Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 18

“Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.”

Has Beens Book Novel Strive Topics Great Book

Author:Chad Harbach

“What I strive to do through my work, is to teach compassion. You need to have a lot of it, in this day and time, and it's lacking.”

Needs Compassion Teach Strive This Day Lacking

Author:Jamel Shabazz

“The best way for parents to go about acquiring a mind-set of self-reflective parenting will be different for different individuals. Some people will find that they are already very close to being the parent they are striving to be. Other people will find reading books or blog articles to be very helpful and some other people might benefit most by engaging in discussions on the internet.”

People Way Mind Book Different Self Might Reading Individual Parent Internet Benefits Strive Best Way Discussion Helpful Articles Reading Books Engaging Blogs Mind Set

Author:Timothy Carey

“The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.”

People Government Goal President Poor Rich Strive Presidential Rich People Presidents Day Inspirational Presidential

Author:Andrew Johnson

“What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."”

Ifs Seems Energy Childhood Becoming Normal Our Children Down And Strive Inevitable Anxious Hierarchy Becoming More

Author:Gloria Steinem

“It's good to do things that are out of the norm. I'm a creature of habit and I like to stay in my own little comfort zone, but you have to reach out of that sometimes. And when you do that, you grow. And growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day. And that's one of the things that I say to myself as far as a ritual that I have every day: "What can I do today to make it better than it was yesterday?"”

Want Needs Littles Sometimes Today Grows Growth My Own Habit Comfort Creatures Strive Yesterday Get Better Each Day Zone Ritual Reach Out Comfort Zone Norm Creatures Of Habit

Author:LaToya Jackson

“One must strive to be as honest as you are humanly capable with yourself and others. It is impossible to move forward otherwise.”

Moving Impossible Honest Capable Strive Moving Forward

Author:Tohoru Masamune

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

People Beautiful Grows Strive

Author:Patricia Arquette

“The credit belongs to those of us who are actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. We strive valiantly and sometimes there's the triumph of achievement but at the worst, we fail, but at least we fail while daring greatly." That has really changed my life. Profoundly changed my life.”

Sometimes Faces Failing Blood Worst Changed Achievement Strive Credit Dust Triumph Sweat Daring Arena Changed My Life Daring Greatly

Author:Brené Brown

“My hope is to incite that feeling of inspiration in as many other people as possible. To receive and pass along that baton to anyone willing to carry it further. I guess the answer to the question would be I'm inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.”

People Sometimes Feelings Inspiration Would Be Answers Inspire Willing Strive Inspired Baton

Author:Adam Rodriguez

“I don't strive for balance. I just try to get through my to-do list, with my kids' homework being at the top of it, and then try to prepare for the next audition or whatever scene I'm shooting next. Balance.”

Trying Kids Next Balance Scene Strive Lists Shooting Auditions Homework

Author:Adina Porter

“I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?”

Jobs Strive I Realized

Author:Johnny Depp

“That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book”

Ifs Wells Doe Said Important Book Opinion Achieve Honest Strive Journalism Being Honest Our Society Fairness Strife Objectivity Presenting

Author:Sheri Fink

“For me it's a new experience every single time, because - The dance community has a great strength in synergizing immediately. So we recognize that opposed to being competition, which we are in the audition process, once we're on the job is about cohesion, it's about striving to highlight each individual in their own element, while also creating something that is visually tantalizing to the audience. While the ingredients of each movie has been different, the recipe for success is the same, which is to click immediately and make the best possible movie.”

“I strive to do my best every single time and I think that's something the skate community knows about me and appreciates.”

Thinking Knows Community Appreciate Strive Skates

Author:Mike Vallely

“I'll always definitely strive to write songs that are going to help people feel confident in themselves.”

People Feels Writing Helping Song Strive

Author:Melanie Martinez

“I like to take things incrementally, and strive for something that feels more attainable.”

Feels Strive

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.”

Trying Humans Happiness Highest Difficulty Strive Inner Peace Conquer Felicity Insensibility

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

“I made a conscious decision when I was about 17 years old to strive towards mediocrity. I completely abandoned the idea of grandeur and importance, and I wanted to be mediocre.”

Years Made Ideas Wanted Decision Conscious Importance Strive Mediocrity Abandoned Mediocre Grandeur

Author:Evangeline Lilly

“There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.”

Men Strive Better Man

Author:Kevin Drew

“Our practices - our most spiritual practices - are hanging laundry on the line, raising children, building strong relationships, practicing kindness as much as we can, striving for excellence in the workplace, and developing deeper self-knowledge. I wrote The Four Purposes of Life to assist in these endeavors.”

“We're too passive. We're feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone and be able to get the most of each one of us, which means restructuring the way we deal with time and the priorities we have in life, so being what we want to be I think should be something that we should keep in mind.”

Thinking Way Want Should Mind Mean Able Deals Too Much Comfort Strive Priorities Zone Passive Comfort Zone Feeding Rubbish Restructuring

Author:Ingrid Betancourt

“The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.”

Courses Steps Strive Leap Heroic Intuitive Doubters

Author:Steve Martin

“I can't be one of those hipster guys with a beard when I have a hair campaign. I strive to look a little bit more... all-American.”

Looks Littles I Can Guy Bits Hair Little Bit Strive Campaigns Beard Hipster

Author:C. J. Wilson

“The Buddha's teaching leads us to the realization that we must always strive to harm no sentient being, human or nonhuman, whether or not it is in our selfish interest to do so.”

Humans Interest Teaching Strive Harm Selfish Realization Buddhist Being Human Sentient Beings Selfish Interest

Book:The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights

Source: The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights

“Great performers are, by definition, abnormal; they strive throughout their entire careers to separate themselves from the pack.”

Careers Achievement Strive Definitions Performers Packs Abnormal

Author:John Eliot

“When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the very experiences that will help kids grow up to be the empowered, creative, brave problem-solvers that they can and must be.”

Helping Problem Kids Grows Creative Growing Up Risk Childhood Foundation Brave Strive Rational Remove Adulthood Empowered Problem Solvers

Author:Gever Tulley

“Even if you do no work that is particularly lofty or far-reaching, if you can shed mundane feelings, that is a great achievement. Even if you do not strive much for progress in learning, if you can minimize the influence things have on you, you will soar into the realm of sages.”

Ifs Feelings Progress Influence Achievement Strive Realms Reaching Taoism Shed Soar Sage Mundane Lofty Great Achievement

Author:Zicheng Hong

“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.”

People Ifs Want Harder Strive

Author:Kelly Rowland

“When I was in law school I was taught that the great writers were people like [Oliver Wendell] Holmes Jr. and [Benjamin N.] Cardozo. But you go back and read their prose and it's sort of perfumed and very ornate and show-offy. And they're constantly striving for these abstractions that seem archaic nowadays.”

People Shows Seems School Law Taught Strive Prose Abstraction In-laws Holmes Great Writers Law School

Author:Jeffrey Rosen

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

Matter No Matter What Strive

Author:Robert Greene

“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.”

People Thinking Different Difficult Strive Great Things Something Better

Author:Mark Hoppus

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

People Humans Human Nature Strive Something New

Author:Mark Hoppus

“I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing in the sonnets, and it's very real because it's so deeply personal. I try to aspire to that in what I do.”

Writing Trying Real Character Humanity Behinds Strive Aspire Definite Sonnet

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“We were striving and struggling not just for a dream ticket, but a dream team...”

Dream Struggle Team Strive Tickets Dream Team

Author:Dominic Raab

“The best we can do is strive to minimize the amount of harm we cause by living. We need to eat in order to live, and there is no moral or ethical code that dictates that we should refrain from eating and allow ourselves to die for some higher purpose.”

Needs Should Purpose Order Dies Causes Can Do Moral Amount Higher Eating Strive Harm Code Ethical Refrain Higher Purpose

Author:Sharon Gannon

“I have a vision of a world where we don't continue down senseless paths, where we care for our fellow human as much as we care for ourselves. I believe the mere striving for such a world is in itself a part of the liberation, and a foundation for inner and global security.”

World Believe Humans Care I Believe Vision Path Security Fellows Foundation Mere Strive Liberation

Author:Sam Branson

“It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.”

Strive Accomplish

Author:Angie Martinez

“I'm inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.”

People Sometimes Inspire Strive Inspired

Author:Adam Rodriguez

“I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.”

Made Important Certain Goal Achieve Strive Setting Settings Made It Setting Goals Nineteen Near Death Near Death Experience

Author:Phil Keoghan

“Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice.”

Form Understanding Responsibility Practice Achieve Acceptance Highest Commitment Harmony Sacred Strive Crucial Personal Responsibility Counterparts Forms Of Love

Author:Arielle Ford

“I carry around a notebook that is equal parts day planner and journal. Every morning, I check to see what the agenda for the day is, and if there isn't a plan, I make one. I strive to fill the rest of the page with miscellaneous thoughts and ideas and go back through and fill sparse pages as well. If I start skipping days, I know I'm off course and need to take a step back and ground my life.”

Ifs Knows Needs Wells Ideas Courses Steps Morning Plans Equal Pages Strive Checks Agendas Every Morning Journal Notebook Miscellaneous Planners Thoughts And Ideas

Author:Kit Williamson

“I do realize, however, while striving to be your true self to the level I do, there will be pushback, resistance, and misunderstanding. I look at each of these experiences as an opportunity to educate and make the path potentially less daunting for anyone else that follows in my footsteps.”

Looks Self Opportunity Realizing Levels Path Strive Resistance Educate True Self Misunderstanding Footsteps

Author:Joanna Lohman

“There are women & girls who are pushing the boundaries for what society deems as "normal." We need these pioneers to inspire future generations to dream big and strive to achieve those dreams.”

Needs Dream Bigs Girl Generations Achieve Inspire Normal Strive Boundaries Pushing Future Generation Pioneers

Author:Joanna Lohman

“Growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day.”

Want Needs Growth Strive Get Better Each Day

Author:LaToya Jackson

“I like the image of The Old Man and the Sea, of striving and succeeding but finding that the success was ghost success. In other words, in the long run, after a certain age, the motives for success, pride or oppressing people or getting power.”

People Men Long Running Age Certain Sea Pride Succeed Findings Strive Ghost Motive Old Man Long Runs

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“There is a much bigger picture we are all striving for. To sweat the small stuff just stresses you out for no reason.”

Reason Stuff Bigger Stress Strive No Reason Sweat Bigger Picture Small Stuff Sweat The Small Stuff

Author:Laura Prepon

“I love love. Growing up, I always thought it was a state, and I'd wait for it to appear. Now I think it's an activity, a skill, something you strive to create. A constant conversation between emotion and imagination and flesh.”

Thinking States Waiting Imagination Emotion Growing Up Growing Activity Skills Conversation Constant Strive Flesh

Author:Greg Saunier

“Strive for a life well lived. Each one with their own aims, preferences, and meaning. Always, of course, without harming other persons or preventing others from being able to form a good life for themselves.”

Wells Persons Able Form Courses Aim Strive Good Life Preference Preventing Life Well Lived Harming Others

Author:Jose Gonzalez

“Through my work and ways of expression, I strive to engage in dialogue with the society that I am living in.”

Way Expression Strive Dialogue

Author:Ai Weiwei

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