Quotes with strives

  • What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

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  • Aeschylus God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Eric Hoffer Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Berthold Auerbach Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Billy Graham Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • George Santayana The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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