Strive Quotes

Let us daily strive to copy our Savior's humility.

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.

All created things are impermanent. Strive diligently.

You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in order to have the life that's waiting to be yours. Move, move, move.

I strive for honesty in playing what I feel.

A positive goal to strive for when disciplining would be to raise children we not only love, but in whose company we love being.

It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you.

Justice of the world is in its creativity, in solving problems, in our activity and struggle. While I am alive there is the possibility to act, to strive for happiness, this is justice.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

One by one the sands are flowing, One by one the moments fall; Some are coming, some are going; Do not strive to grasp them all.

A tulip doesn't strive to impress anyone. It doesn't struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn't have to. It is different. And there's room in the garden for every flower.

Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.

All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.

Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

I have no agenda - just to be loved. Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.

Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

War and it's tragic repercussions are inclusive of all; surely a model for peace should strive for such inclusiveness.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

I just strive to do better. Every time I meet somebody, I ask myself, "How can I help this person?"

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

One has to strive for a very open liberal society.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

Don't think about what you want, think about what the world needs, and strive to fill that gap. Success is a game of inches.

There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.

Awareness cannot be at the end of a process because the very striving, and the process itself, is arising and appearing in the Awareness which is timelessly present.

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

Every day, through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imagination, to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.

Strive to have sunshine in our hearts each day. It will greatly improve our outlook.

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.