Strive Quotes - page 2

Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It's a constant, in our society. (Mila Kunis)
I cannot make my days longer, so I strive to make them better. View quote
Paul Theroux
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. View quote
Victor Hugo
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
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. View quote
Sigmund Freud
There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world. View quote
Elihu Root
Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better. View quote
Edwin Louis Cole
I am not impressed with what people own. But I'm impressed with what they achieve. I'm proud to be a physician. Always strive to be the best in your field.... Don't chase money. If you are the best in your field, money will find you. View quote
Thomas J. Stanley
Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better. View quote
Christine Lahti
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation. View quote
Theodore Bikel
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. (Theodore Bikel)
Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence. View quote
Victoria Principal
What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. View quote
William Albert Allard
We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better. View quote
Kofi Annan
I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera. View quote
Modest Mussorgsky
I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: "Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color." View quote
Thaddeus Stevens
In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it. View quote
Aliko Dangote
However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
But Hitler didn't strive for the annihilation of the Jews - he stressed that fact in public life and in the newspapers. Hitler merely said at the beginning that Jewish influence was too great, that of all the lawyers in Berlin, eighty percent were Jewish. Hitler thought that a small percentage of the people, the Jews, should not be allowed to control the theater, cinema, radio, et cetera. View quote
Franz von Papen
Where I used to strive for movement and restlessness I now attempt to sense and express the complete total calm of objects and the surrounding air. View quote
Lyonel Feininger
The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete. (Bruce Lee)
From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength - strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally. View quote
Sri Aurobindo