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“I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.”

Way Made Hard Dream Father My Own Seeing Strive Satisfaction Afterlife Fulfilled Observing

Author:Sigourney Weaver

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

Inspirational Journey Mark Presses Strive

Book:Seventy-five Sermons on Various Important Subjects: In this Complete Collection is Included the Eighteen Sermons Taken in Short Hand by Mr. Gurney. And to which is Now Added, a Sermon of the Character, Preaching, &c. of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield

Source: Seventy-five Sermons on Various Important Subjects: In this Complete Collection is Included the Eighteen Sermons Taken in Short Hand by Mr. Gurney. And to which is Now Added, a Sermon of the Character, Preaching, &c. of the Rev. Mr. Whitefield

“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.”

Knows World Needs Giving Hard Seems Goal Path Capable Aim Strive Endure Behave Hard Times Being The Best Persist Aim High

Author:E. O. Wilson

“In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.”

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Book:Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas

“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.”

Should May Hands Artist Rooms Design Comfort Experience Strive Architect Utility Hand In Hand Simplify Ensemble

Book:Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete 1925

Source: Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete 1925

“We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.”

Way Should Realizing Strive Employed

Author:Theodore Zeldin

“When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.”

Loss Losing Strive Affection

Author:Gary Zukav

“The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed.”

Heart Book Changed Strive Instruction Pathways

Author:David A. Bednar

“Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation.”

Important Soul Enough Hands Teach Authority Salvation Strive Lifts Righteousness Bless Receiving Priesthood Ordination

Author:David A. Bednar

“Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.”

Giving May Sometimes Might Asks Goal Growth Grace Achieve Perspective Blessed Strive Prosperity Conviction Worthy Thanksgiving Stamina Petitions

Author:David A. Bednar

“Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.”

Form Joy Beats Sitting Intelligent Strive Hip Hop Rhythm Hips Features Hops Offering Exhausted Scholarship Seductive Sample Soulful

Book:Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop

Source: Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop

“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.”

Source: Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life

“Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

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Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all.”

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“Was he smart enough? Introspective enough? Was it just enough to love him, or should I attach myself to someone who seemed farther ahead of me, someone smarter and more ambitious than me, who'd be sure to carry me along into the version of adulthood I thought I should be striving for?”

Should Enough Smart Strive Versions Ambitious Adulthood Smarter Should I Introspective

Author:Caroline Knapp

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.”

Source: Toward a Psychology of Being

“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.”

Ifs Thinking World Life Two Social Voice Answers Alive Equal Unique Importance Claims Strive Complicated Billions Intense

Book:Atonement

Source: Atonement

“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.”

Way Success Taught Strive Guarantees Keep The Faith

Author:Madeleine Albright

“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“People often ask me why my style is so simple. It is, in fact, deceptively simple, for no two sentences are alike. It is clarity that I am striving to attain, not simplicity. Of course, some people want literature to be difficult and there are writers who like to make their readers toil and sweat. They hope to be taken more seriously that way. I have always tried to achieve a prose that is easy and conversational. And those who think this is simple should try it for themselves.”

People Thinking Way Want Should Trying Two Facts Courses Asks Literature Easy Difficult Simple Taken Achieve Style Reader Strive Simplicity Sentences Clarity Ask Me Prose Sweat Toil

Author:Ruskin Bond

“Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.”

Trying Mean Quality Strive Spread Ease Willpower Always Trying

Author:Charles Baxter

“Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the calmness of his figure, in which there was no trace of seeking, desiring, imitating, or striving, only light and peace”

Two Light Figures Perfection Towns Strive Seeking Calmness Repose Imitating Alms

Author:Hermann Hesse

“The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind would sweep away obtuse padding.”

Giving Art Light Would Be Earth Difficult Nature Quality Land Wind Pages Strive Weather Truest

Book:The solace of open spaces

Source: The solace of open spaces

“God helps him who strives hard.”

Hard Helping Strive Strife God Help

Author:Euripides

“I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”

Giving Divine Strive Giving Back

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”

Source: Man's Search for Meaning

“Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human...I told Mom my own theory of why we like birds - of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.”

People Humans May Said States My Own Theory Mom Sorrow Prove Behavior Unique Bird Miracle Strive Greed Stupidity Being Human Human Behavior Exhibits

Author:Douglas Coupland

“From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room. I am vividly aware of my own life that escaped the winter on the boat. How many such lives I have lived. Then I only made a dollar and a half a day and now I sometimes make more than that in a few minutes. How wonderful to be able to write words. ... Again I begin the endless game of reconstructing my own life, jerking it out of the shell that dies, striving to breathe into it beauty and meaning. ... I wonder why my life, why all lives, are not more beautiful.”

“When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.”

Thinking Mean Said Happens Goal Findings Strive Seeking Worthy Noses Obsessed Openness Seekers Receptive Siddhartha

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The most difficult thing is love. A loveless, driving person that just competes in the rat race is far from perfection in my book.”

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Author:R. D. Laing

“Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.”

Ifs Men Littles Long Knowing Kings Hero Findings Gains Strive Seeking Every Man Farmers Heroism Long Ago Strife Clay Turnips

Book:The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain

“I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.”

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Author:Hermann Hesse

“It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.”

Doe Important Matter Goal Effort Struggle Ultimate Rewards Strive Yield Ultimate Goal

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.”

Life Giving Humans Important Action Existence Self Esteem Depends Balance Morality Ethics Dignity Strive Endeavor Our Actions Ethics And Morals

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.”

Knows Men World Stories Might Suffering Given Pay Subjects Cost Strive Punishment Passing Passings New Life Renewal Regeneration Initiation Crime And Punishment Raskolnikov

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“What whites have rarely had to think about—because being the dominant group, we are so used to having our will done, with a little effort at least—is that maybe the point is not victory, however much we all wish to see justice attained and injustice routed. Maybe our redemption comes from the struggle itself. Maybe it is in the effort, the striving for equality and freedom that we become human.”

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Book:White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

Source: White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son

“We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.”

Mind War Soul Suffering Hatred Sight Strive Addiction Transformed Strokes Twisted Alchemy Crippled Ulcers

Author:Keith Ablow

“Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.”

World Perfect Perfection Excellence Strive Perfectionism A Perfect World

Author:Joyce Meyer

“''Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and said in unison, "We are the sisters of Gillian." "Why do you come?" my mother asked. "To learn her skills. Honor her sword. And keep her secrets." "To what end do you work?" "To the cause of justice and light." "How long will you strive?" "For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.”

“The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.”

People Problem Culture Land Harmony Strive Forgotten Conservation Land Conservation

Book:Round River

Source: Round River

“When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.”

Purpose Doubt Strive Selfish Selfless Selfless Service Power Of God

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“We ask God to endow human souls with justice so that they may be fair and may strive to provide for the comfort of all that each member of humanity may pass his life in the utmost comfort and welfare. Then this material world will become the very paradise of the Kingdom this elemental earth will be in a heavenly state and all the servants of God will live in the utmost joy happiness and gladness. We must all strive and concentrate all our thoughts in order that such happiness may accrue to the world of humanity.”

“There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.”

Might Causes One Thing Strive Meaningless Good Causes

Author:Vaclav Havel

“Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.”

Wells Born Forget Fate Strive Endure Forget You Forget Me Rochester Mr Rochester

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?”

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Book:Memoirs of a Revolutionist

Source: Memoirs of a Revolutionist

“Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.”

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.”

Sound Women Struggle Strive Lips Insufficient Stammering

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing in life, really. And I think we are all striving for it in different ways. I also believe very, very strongly that everybody is the hero/heroine of his/her own life. I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters”