Strife Quotes - Page 2

• What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment.

  Nikola Tesla

  Pride, Community, Understanding

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.54, Courier Dover Publications

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• Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

  Jesse Owens

  Motivational, Friendship, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

  Washington Irving

  Marriage, Two, Three

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• On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Victory, Friendly, Fields

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• Lincoln's appeal to "the better angels of our nature" failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals bequeathed to the Union, cemented with blood, a moral heritage which, when drawn upon in times of stress and strife, is sure to find specific ways and means to surmount difficulties that may appear to be insurmountable.

  Felix Frankfurter

  War, Stress, Mean

  Concurring, Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1, 1958.

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• We shall continue to work for a Middle East that is free of strife and violence, living in harmony without the threat of terrorism or the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.

  Hosni Mubarak

  Easter, Mass Destruction, Weapons

  "Mubarak: Arabs to Fight 'Scourge of Terrorism'". Joint News Conference with President Bush, edition.cnn.com. June 03, 2003.

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• Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Heart, Soul, Division

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• There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Men, Here And There

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.31, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

  Patti Smith

  Mother, Sibling, Childhood

  "'Even as a child, I felt like an alien'". Interview with Simon Reynolds, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2005.

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• All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

  Beatrix Potter

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Beatrix Potter (2013). “Delphi Complete Peter Rabbit Tales (Illustrated)”, p.1001, Delphi Classics

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• Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

  Thomas Gray

  Solitude, Crowds, Ignoble

  "Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard" l. 73 (1751)

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• The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

  Ezra Pound

  Artist, Doe, Literature

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• Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word.

  Laurence Olivier

  Life, Disappointment, Sunset

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• Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

  Barack Obama

  Goal, Trying, Bombs

  Address to the Nation on the End of Operation Iraqi Freedom, delivered 31 August 2010, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• The last thing is simplicity. After having gone through all the difficulties, having played an endless number of notes, it is simplicity that matters, with all its charm. It is the final seal on Art. Anyone who strives for this to begin with will be disappointed. You cannot begin at the end.

  Frederic Chopin

  Art, Numbers, Simplicity

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• Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

  Billy Graham

  Offending, Today's Society, Our Society

  Twitter post from Mar 19, 2013

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• How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of Ovid, who, with others like them, are now gnashing their teeth in the prison of the infernal Babylon, under the cruet tyranny of Pluto?

  Honorius Augustodunensis

  Plato, Scary, Soul

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• Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Clever, Rising

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• Is there some meaning to this life?
  What purpose lies behind the strife?
  Whence do we come, where are we bound?
  These cold questions echo and resound
  through each day, each lonely night.
  We long to find the splendid light
  that will cast a revelatory beam
  upon the meaning of the human dream.
  Courage, love, friendship,
  compassion, and empathy
  lift us above the simple beasts
  and define humanity.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Dream, Lonely

  Dean Koontz, “Strangers”

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• Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. "I have died before.

  Janet Morris

  Time, War, Battle

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.358, Paradise Publishing

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• Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life:
  Such a Way as gives us breath:
  Such a Truth as ends all strife:
  Such a Life as killeth death.

  Georges Hebert

  Jesus, Giving, Way

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• Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

  Horace

  Sports, War, Wrath

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• The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Slavery, Way, Perdition

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• The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.

  Democritus

  Men, Law, Envy

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 166), 1948.

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