Strive Quotes - Page 8

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

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, People

  Twitter post from Jul 2, 2013

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• In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Country, Attention, Strife

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• There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

  Bliss Carman

  Passion, Successful, Perfection

  "The Friendship of Art".

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• You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Accuracy, Again And Again, Gym

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• It is not enough to simply "do your best". You must strive for perfection.

  Subir Chowdhury

  Perfection, Quality, Enough

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• Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

  Donald Richie

  Loneliness, Poverty, Rich

  Donald Richie (2007). “A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics”, p.47, Stone Bridge Press

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• Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

  Bruce Lee

  Heart, Listening, Mind

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (2000). “Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.204, Tuttle Publishing

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• I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable.

  Marissa Mayer

  Thinking, Information, Online

  "Marissa Mayer on real-time search, sensors and more: full text of interview". Interview with Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2009.

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• Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us.

  Arthur Trudeau

  Character

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• A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Spring, Moving, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “The Art of Literature”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Determination, Men, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.290, Penguin

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• There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hours, Destruction, Turns

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• I strive to seek new material that fit into the logic of construction, while performing services appropriate to real needs.

  Gaetano Pesce

  Real, Needs, Logic

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• Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Strife

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

  Oliver Cowdery

  Faces, Face To Face, Cease

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• Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Two, Looks

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.

  Robert Burns

  Men, Church, Damnation

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

  William Cowper

  Alive, Habit

  William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.91

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• Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

  Robert Herrick

  Men, Firsts, Virtue

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

  Sophocles

  Long, Gains, Life Is

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• So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.

  Josiah Royce

  Unique, Needed, Various

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

  Gerald R. Ford

  Best Effort, Missing, Beats

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

  Peace Pilgrim

  Freedom, Giving, Desire

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.18, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• In some way I felt I was never good enough until I started fighting. I was always striving to show my worth and value.

  Randy Couture

  Fighting, Mma, Way

  Randy Couture (2009). “Becoming the Natural: My Life In and Out of the Cage”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• It's all about... getting back up and getting back to work and striving to be the best you can be.

  Robbie Lawler

  Getting Back Up, Mma, Striving To Be The Best

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