Strive Quotes - Page 7

• If we strive for goals, relishing in the pleasure of circumstance, nothing is enjoyable, and life becomes purposeless.

  Andrew the Apostle

  Philosophy, Goal, Pleasure

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• One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

  Joseph Prince

  Effort, Grace, One Day

  Joseph Prince (2014). “The Power of Right Believing: 7 Keys to Freedom from Fear, Guilt and Addiction”, p.299, Hachette UK

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• Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

  Muriel Barbery

  Delight, Movement, Pleasure

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• It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

  Brad Henry

  Children, Expectations, Excellence

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• When you're not goal-striving, not looking forward, you're not really living.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Goal, Looking Forward, Really Living

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

  Agnes Repplier

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

  Melody Beattie

  Self, Perfection, Excellence

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

  Brené Brown

  Thinking, Self, Healthy

  "The Gifts of Imperfection". Book by Brené Brown, 2010.

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• But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand.

  Christopher Ryan

  Acceptance, Accepting

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• Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.

  Félix J. Palma

  Dream, Waste, Wasting Time

  Félix J. Palma (2012). “The Map of Time: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Success, Race, Age

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• It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

  August Bournonville

  Dance, Art, Lyrical

  August Bournonville (1979). “My theatre life”, Wesleyan

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• What religion cannot do, GRACE does! Grace empowered obedience beats striving and performing any time!! Every time!!

  Floyd McClung

  Grace, Doe, Obedience

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• "Foreboding" and "ominous" is what you're striving to achieve-not mention.

  Josip Novakovich

  Writing, Achieve, Ominous

  Josip Novakovich (2008). “Fiction Writer's Workshop”, p.126, Writer's Digest Books

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• Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.

  Jan Carlzon

  Mean, Excellence, Quality

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• The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

  Carl Rogers

  Tendencies, Organisms

  Carl Rogers (2012). “Client Centred Therapy (New Ed)”, p.353, Hachette UK

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• Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

  John Milton

  Marriage, Office, May

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.81

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• The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with the body and its striving for pleasure and sexual fulfilment.

  Alexander Lowen

  Powerful, Men, Goal

  Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

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• Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Education, Giving Up, Science

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

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• The peace for which every soul strives and which is the true nature of God and the utmost goal of a man is but the outcome of harmony.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Wise, Men, Goal

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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• I would want to teach my children someday that they should strive to be successful.

  Michael Grimm

  Children, Successful, Want

  "As Romney breaks away, the 'Reagan Rule' of not attacking fellow Republicans is tossed aside". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. January 10, 2012.

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• Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Rights, Declaration, Humans

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

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• I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

  Charles Handy

  Success, Believe, Insecurity

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• In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.

  Butler Lampson

  Disaster, Resources, Optimum

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• There is no prize in sales for second place. It's win or nothing. The masters know this and strive for - they fight for - that winning edge.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Fighting, Winning, Masters

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