Strive Quotes - Page 32

• Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.

  Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

  Life, Motivational, Heaven

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• The Arabs were Germany's natural friends...They were therefore prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate in a war, not only negatively in the commission of acts of sabotage and the instigation of revolutions, but also positively by the formation of the Arab Legion. In this struggle, the Arabs were striving for the independence and the unity of Palestine, Syria and Iraq.

  Haj Amin al-Husseini

  War, Struggle, Heart

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• To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite literally. She, on her part, is always striving to remain a poem, and is never weary of bringing out new editions of herself in novel bindings.

  James Parton

  Men, Romance, Mystery

  James Parton (1868). “Smoking and Drinking”, p.30

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• The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.

  Tom DeMarco

  Focus, Projects, Minors

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• In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

  Donald Sadoway

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mentor

  "Innovating Dirt Cheap: What Sadoway Can Teach Us About The Future Of Clean Energy" by Loukia Papadopoulos, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2016.

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• If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If you possess any power or authority, you must strive to use it to help and empower the powerless.

  Craig Murray

  Voice, Empowering, Use

  Craig Murray (2007). “Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough-and-Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skirt-Chasing, Dictator-Busting and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War Against Terror”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Artist, Clouds, Color

  Quoted in Goodrich Albert Pinkham Ryder (1959).

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• The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create objects out of images(symbols)... The artist, like the eye, must provide true images and the clues of distance to tell his magic lies.

  Colin Blakemore

  Distance, Lying, Eye

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• The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.

  Mechthild of Magdeburg

  Soul, Return, Made

  Mechthild (of Magdeburg) (1953). “The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297): Or, The Flowing Light of the Godhead”

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• You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation are salient features but I also strive to make music that is peaceful. I want to make music that aids world peace in the same way that the people who shaped my development did.

  Bennie Maupin

  People, Peaceful, Want

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• Every year at this time, an important phrase marks the season: peace on earth and goodwill towards men. It's so common we sometimes forget about what it really means - that we strive for a world without war, a society where we respect and help our neighbors, a place where we protect and uplift our most in need. This isn't a phrase we should live by for one day or one month. It's a set of values that must bond and motivate us every day.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Uplifting, War, Mean

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• Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with the certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you. You are as firmly established, as invulnerable as she, indeed a thousand times firmer and more invulnerable. As surely as she will engulf you tomorrow, so surely will she bring you forth anew to the new striving and suffering. And not merely "some day." Now, today, every day she is bringing you forth, not once but thousands upon thousands of times, just as every day she engulfs you a thousand times over.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Mother, Suffering, Earth

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

  Laozi

  Taoism, Doe, Sage

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• That's what you strive for - you strive to take your move to the next level. It's about shock value, always shock value, but keeping it flavor and stylized and making it yours.

  Crazy Legs

  Moving, Next Level, Flavor

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• Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

  Billy Strayhorn

  Romance, Stifling

  Song: Lush Life

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• I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

  William Allingham

  Men, Feelings, Energy

  William Allingham (1967). “William Allingham's diary”, Centaur Press

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• And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying tribute at some time or other to Love, and it is vain to strive to avoid it. I was a philosopher, yet this tyrant of the mind triumphed over all my wisdom; his darts were of greater force than all my reasonings, and with a sweet constraint he led me wherever he pleased.

  Peter Abelard

  Sweet, Believe, Men

  Peter Abelard, Héloïse (2017). “Letters of Abelard and Heloise”, p.40, Litres

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• If we want to be a person of integrity, we act as if we have integrity and we will be a person of integrity. If we want to be a person of charity and love, we act as if we have that characteristic and we will be that person. The Savior alluded to this principle when he asked, ‘What manner of men ought ye to be?’ Verily I say unto you, even as I am.' We should strive to become like him by acting as he would act.

  Royden G. Derrick

  Integrity, Men, Acting

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• As the publisher of the 'Tory,' I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.

  Pete Hegseth

  Civilization, Diversity, Pillars

  "Pete Hegseth's Princeton files" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. March 6, 2012.

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• I think most of my approach to life has been like that, to find order in chaos, to be in the middle of a bunch of things happening at the same time, but find focus. I strive to be like the sun sitting in the middle of the solar system with all the planets spinning around it - millions of things going on. It's just sitting there being the sun, but exerting gravitational effect on everything. I think man should look at himself that way.

  RZA

  Men, Thinking, Spinning Around

  The RZA (2009). “The Tao of Wu”, p.37, Penguin

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• We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.

  Newton N. Minow

  Creativity, People, Imagination

  Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC

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• Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ's strongest disciples.

  Selwyn Hughes

  Doubt, Overcoming, Christ

  Selwyn Hughes (1999). “Light for the Path”, B&H Publishing Group

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• Meditation and spiritual practice are good, but also action. It's very important to be clear about who you are, and also about your relation to the Earth. Develop yourself according to your own tradition and the call of your heart. But remember to respect differences, and strive for unity.

  Carlos Barrios

  Spiritual, Heart, Practice

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• If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Pain, Believe, Use

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• Why do we so mindlessly abuse our planet, our only home? The answer to that lies in each of us. Therefore, we will strive to bring about understanding that we are--each one of us--responsible for more than just ourselves, our family, our football team, our country, or our own kind; that there is more to life than just these things. That each one of us must also bring the natural world back into its proper place in our lives, and realize that doing so is not some lofty ideal but a vital part of our personal survival.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Football, Country, Team

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