Quotes with strive

  • I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
  • However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
  • I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.
  • The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
  • 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.
  • The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 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.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ann Bancroft For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Sigmund Freud 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
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • James Thurber All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Richard Rorty Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
    Richard Rorty
    American philosopher (1931 - 2007)
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  • Brad Sherman As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Barack Obama 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.
    Statement during National Prayer Breakfast (27 September 2010)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Sir Laurence Olivier Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
    Sir Laurence Olivier
    English actor and stage director (1907 - 1989)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Abraham Tucker Dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances.
    Abraham Tucker
     
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  • Richard Nixon For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Vachel Lindsay I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
    Vachel Lindsay
    American poet (1879 - 1931)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Salman Rushdie I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Horace I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Ann Bancroft I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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