Strive Quotes - Page 36

• Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.

  William Matthews

  Men, Dwarves, Excellence

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• Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want

  Fran Tarkenton

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• Act without striving. Work without interfering. Find the flavour in what is flavourless.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Flavour, Interfere

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• Few things under heaven bring more benefit than the lessons learned from silence and the actions taken without striving.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Taken, Silence

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• Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, and ray it out upon your fellows in this work-day world.

  William Morley Punshon

  Real, Heaven, Rays

  William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.16, Adam, Stevenson

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• I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.

  Brian Carter

  Health, Perfect, Wish

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• So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things that have never been done before. Quite often it is done without authority, without knowledge, and without a background in taste. They need to be educated about the past, and they need a richer vocabulary.

  Albert Hadley

  Past, Vocabulary, Design

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• Our challenge is to face up heroically to the world as it is and do our very best to make the most of our lives. To strive to live each day with serenity and courage.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Serenity, Challenges, Each Day

  Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”

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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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• In no circumstance would the United States or any other nation have the right to mount a military invasion to overthrow another government for the ostensible purpose of achieving disarmament. Rather, the United States would respect the Charter of the UN and would strive to achieve disarmament and settle the differences among nations through peaceful diplomatic means.

  David Cortright

  Military, Mean, Government

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• The time has come for those nations that rely on the force of nuclear armaments to respectfully heed the voices of peace-loving people, not least the atomic bomb survivors, to strive in good faith for nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, and to advance towards the complete abolishment of all such weapons.

  Iccho Itoh

  Nuclear Disarmament, Voice, People

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• For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war.

  Jan Eliasson

  War, Commitment, Noble

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• Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.

  Robert McNamara

  Thinking, Events, Nuclear

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• Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation, is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.

  Alva Myrdal

  Survival, Nuclear, Threat

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• In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.

  Olympia Brown

  Understanding, Furniture, Losing

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• Being is thoughtless-beyond and beneath all categories of thought. Expression is the realization of creative thought. Being is still; expression, moving. But then if I do not strive, who will?

  Zhuangzi

  Moving, Creativity, Expression

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• Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.

  Brenda Poinsett

  Struggle, Growth, Growing

  Brenda Poinsett (2000). “What Will I Do with the Rest of My Life?: A Woman's Guide to Discovering Peace, Power, and Purpose After 40”, Navpress Publishing Group

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• Know how to keep anticipation alive: always strive to feed it, by letting the much promise more, and the one achievement be the announcement only of a greater. Put not all your reserves into the first throw; the great trick is to dole out strength, and to dole out mind, in such a fashion as to bring forward increasingly the fulfillment of what was expected of you.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fashion, Achievement, Promise

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• Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Humility, Perfection

  Leo Tolstoy (2010). “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Worry, And Love, Anticipation

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• The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, World, Paint

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• Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing things could be worse and being grateful they aren't. The alternative view that peace and happiness comes from the objective external perspective of having more and better things than at present, while important for growth, can be a never-ending source of jealousy, dissatisfaction and disappointment. A balance of the two, where people are grateful for what they have while striving for more seems the best blended perspective.

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Grateful

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• Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.

  Rose Bird

  Art, Form, Strife

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• It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half of our life. Study, application, industry, enthusiasm while we are young usually enable us to enjoy life when we grow older. But unless we toil and strive and earn all we can in the first half, the second half of our life is liable to bring disappointment, discomfort, distress. The time to put forth effort is when we are most able to do it, namely, in the years of our greatest strength. The law of compensation hasn't ceased to function.

  B. C. Forbes

  Disappointment, Indulge In, Years

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• True men of this world do not wish. They change that which they know can be changed, they accept what cannot, and they always strive for the wisdom to know the difference.

  Sigmund Brouwer

  Wisdom, Men, Differences

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