Strive Quotes - page 3

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free? (Emil Cioran)
He who is running a race ought to endeavor and strive to the utmost of his ability to come off victor; but it is utterly wrong for him to trip up his competitor, or to push him aside. So in life it is not unfair for one to seek for himself what may accrue to his benefit; but it is not right to take it from another. View quote
Chrysippus
Since ancient times, philosophers have maintained that to strive too hard for one's own happiness is self-defeating. View quote
Peter Singer
Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon-provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain. View quote
Peter Medawar
If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up. View quote
Jan Smuts
Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me. View quote
Jascha Heifetz
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment. View quote
Sarah Grimké
Remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend. View quote
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work. View quote
Theodore Zeldin
We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies. View quote
Francisco Franco
Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be. (Nhat Hanh)
I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed. View quote
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. View quote
George Whitefield
How can we set up a system which encourages individuals to strive and excel, and yet which shows some compassion to the weak, and weeds out madmen and tyrants? View quote
David Brin
But strive still to be a man before your mother. View quote
William Cowper
In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man. View quote
Hillel the Elder
Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it - the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations as well as the security and well-being of Our subjects is the solemn obligation which has been handed down by Our Imperial Ancestors and which lies close to Our heart. View quote
Hirohito
The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party, the members of which cherish with ardor and regard as of essential importance the principles of their party organization; but he should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us. (John Calvin)
They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm. View quote
William F. Buckley
The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong, and we cannot expect to see the end of it. ... So we must count on watching and striving for these trees, and should always be glad to find anything so surely good and noble to strive for. View quote
John Muir
The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don't think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived. View quote
Will Smith