Quotes with striving

  • All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
  • The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
  • Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
  • Men's activities are occupied into ways - in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
  • Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
  • Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
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  • Rich Cook Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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  • Alfred Adler A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Barack Obama After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Ralph Ransom All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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  • George Bernard Shaw As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Owen Meredith Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
    Owen Meredith
    British writer, critic and politician (ps. of Edward Bulwer-Lytton) (1802 - 1873)
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  • Frances Rodman Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
    Frances Rodman
     
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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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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  • Pat Riley Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • George Eliot Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Thomas Carlyle For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Eric Hoffer Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Zhuang Zhou Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
    Zhuang Zhou
    Chinese philosopher (369 - 286)
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  • George Washington Carver How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John leCarré, John le Carré Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
    John leCarré, John le Carré
     
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  • Thomas Carlyle In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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