Strive Quotes

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

The only way to acquire spiritual knowledge and keep It burning brightly is to be humble, prayerful, and to strive diligently to keep all of the commandments.

One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

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

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it.

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.

I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they grow up.

We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

When we are working at a difficult task and strive after a good thing, we are fighting a righteous battle, the direct reward of which is that we are kept from much evil.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.

Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.

Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.

Be cheerful . Strive to be happy.

I do strive to find projects that are trying to carve out some new space. I enjoy projects that leap away from the crowd a little bit.

I would want to teach my children someday that they should strive to be successful.

The sage does not strive to be great. Thereby he can accomplish the great.

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.

Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.

There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.

In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.

Strive for originality in thought and action. Be first; Be different; And be daring. Only then will you make a significant difference in this world. You may even attain greatness.

When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.

On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction.

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.

You're always striving to play that perfect match.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

Never cease striving until you have seen God face to face.

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

I was a big "Blue Valentine" fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

I deem we have still much to do and will of course strive for stabilizing the situation in the country and continuing reforms. I am confident in success. All we need at this point is public order.

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .