Strife Quotes - Page 7

• I can't speak for others, but I find the fundamental idea that a life worth living is one during which one strives every day to become a better person to be compelling.

  Massimo Pigliucci

  Speak, Better Person, Strive

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Honestly, I had no idea that the heart could cause such trouble and strife. It could be broken and still mend. It could be wounded and still heal. It could be given away still returned, lost and found. It could do all that and still you lived, though according to some, only just.

  Sally Gardner

  Heart, Ideas, Broken

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• Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

  Jeff Bezos

  Amazon, Want, Strive

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• Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,
  In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;
  Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight, And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.

  James Russell Lowell

  Truth, Men, Light

  'The Present Crisis' (1845)

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• Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.

  Walter Scott

  May, Waking, Hush

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.652

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• Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

  James Taylor

  Things In Life, Important, Usual

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

  Plato

  Children, Passion, Reality

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• When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

  Frantz Fanon

  Teacher, Philosophy, Intelligent

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• And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Winning, Greatness, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.57, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

  Ivan Panin

  Beautiful, Sea, Storm

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• The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

  William Blake

  Knives, Forgiving, Lambs

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.286, Pearson Education

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• There is no advance without strife.

  Philip Wylie

  Philip Wylie, Edwin Balmer (2016). “After Worlds Collide”, p.185, Macmillan

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• I think living in the West, we live in a culture where everybody strives for perfection, whether it's in body, health, spirit, skin, hair, nails. Perfect happiness would be a constant state of bliss, which doesn't exist. Growing up and going through the loss I went through, I never had a moment where I believed a constant state of bliss was possible. Instead, I tried to create many moments. But, I didn't know how to get there. Because of what I went through, I have a natural tendency towards darkness. Though it may be in my DNA as well.

  Loung Ung

  Growing Up, Loss, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.

  Lance Secretan

  Leadership, Higher Ground, Needs

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• When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Writing, Fighting, Voice

  "Interview: Melissa Rosenberg On New Moon, Eclipse, And Breaking Dawn's Potential Mpaa Rating". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. April 4, 2010.

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• All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day.

  William Shakespeare

  Pay, Suits, Please

  William Shakespeare, William Hazlitt (1857). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed”, p.61

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• The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

  George Santayana

  Horse, Focus, Mind

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• Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Marriage, Passion, Problem

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• Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

  Rose Bird

  Art, Strive, Form

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• For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed the entrance of modern Israel into the heavenly Canaan. In neither case were the promises of God at fault. It is the unbelief, the worldliness, unconsecration, and strife among the Lord's professed people that have kept us in this world of sin and sorrow so many years

  Ellen G. White

  Israel, Years, Land

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• I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind to the contemplation of God and one who seeks to understand what he believes.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Work, Believe, Mind

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• Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself.

  Carl Jung

  Philosophy, Teaching, Men

  "Liber Novus".

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• For death and life, in ceaseless strife,
  Beat wild on this world's shore,
  And all our calm is in that balm—
  Not lost but gone before.

  Caroline Norton

  Life And Death, Gone, World

  "Not Lost but Gone Before" (ca. 1850). Burton E. Stevenson, Home Book of Quotations, and the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations trace "Not lost, but gone before" and similar expressions to Seneca, St. Cyprian, and Matthew Henry.

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• An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1991). “Why I Am an Atheist ; Including, A History of Materialism”, Amer Atheist Press

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• All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for.

  Teresa of Avila

  Patience, Strive, All Things

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