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• In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Buddhist, Truth, Life Changing

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• I don't want my personal life to change. I don't understand why people strive for fame. I know it's ironic for me to be saying this, but this will be the last one I do.

  Zach Galifianakis

  People, Ironic, Want

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

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• In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice. It is better to aim for something that you want-even though you miss it-than to get something that you didn't aim to get, and which you don't want! If we look long enough for what we want in life we are almost sure to find it, no matter what that objective may be.

  George Matthew Adams

  Sacrifice, Long, Missing

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• We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.

  Alexander Crummell

  Flower, Odor, World

  Alexander Crummell (1861). “The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...”, p.49

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• 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.

  William H. Macy

  Adversity, People, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Way, Gone, Certain

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• All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.

  Eric Hoffer

  Children, Leader, Followers

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• I think I always just want to get better at whatever Im doing... Always strive for excellence.

  Carl Hagelin

  Thinking, Excellence, Get Better

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• True success is one of the greatest needs. Success is not something you stumble onto or come to by accident. It is something you must sincerely prepare for. Take a good look at successes, and you'll see he same consistent qualities all the time - qualities of one's character that make one strive for a goal with a standard of unmatched excellence.

  Reggie Jackson

  Success, Sports, Character

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• Progress is not striving for economic justice or fairness, but economic growth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Justice, Growth, Progress

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• A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Insanity, Mind

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• 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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Passion, Men, Use

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.198, Everyman's Library

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

  William Shakespeare

  Law, Taming, Culture

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.410

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

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• When I'm out in the water surfing, it clears my mind and it makes me want to play music and write music, and then when I'm playing a lot of music and touring, I can't wait to get in the water again and surf. So, I'm striving to find that perfect balance, and it's all good.

  Donavon Frankenreiter

  Writing, Play, Perfect

  Source: www.hamptons.com

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• Winning once is never anyone's dream. We all want to keep winning no matter what it is, or if we retire, we all still are striving toward something, probably most of us are.

  Venus Williams

  Dream, Winning, Retiring

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• One has to strive for a very open liberal society.

  Zaha Hadid

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• I would not waste five years of my life in order to send to the Israeli readers a simple message such as, "Let us change a policy or stop the settlements," Or, "Let us strive for peace." This is not what it is about.

  Amos Oz

  Simple, Order, Years

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• I said that my father was not a politician. I, instead, think I am. But not in the sense of being interested in a political career - rather in the sense that I think it necessary to strive to build a certain India, the India I want.

  Indira Gandhi

  Father, Thinking, Careers

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I believe every young women needs to know that though you may have to struggle and strive to achieve your dreams, you can have oodles of fun along the way.

  Eric Jacobson

  Dream, Fun, Believe

  Source: wwd.com

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• You're never really happy. I'm certainly not. That's a good thing. It means you're always striving to do better. You hope the next piece will be better.

  Kate Bush

  Mean, Pieces, Next

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• With the Democrats, they see themselves, we see ourselves as the party of the working folks, the striving, you know, the good. But, without anybody acknowledging it, there is now this little camp of folks who come across as very elitist, that look down on red state voters, who think that Republicans are dumb people.

  Van Jones

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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