Top Striving Quotes
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Ovid
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
Victor Hugo
They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
Stephen Fry
I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
Carolyn Wells
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha
Edward de Bono 
Islom Karimov 
Rush Limbaugh 
Andrew Shue 
Barack Obama 
Bjorn Ulvaeus 
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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
Nathaniel Parker Willis 
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
Sean O'Casey
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Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
Flora Lewis
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There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
Sean O'Casey
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By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
Mikhail Bakunin
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We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.
Paul Elmer More
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Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.
Thomas Kempis
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Popular Striving Authors
Friedrich NietzscheMohandas GandhiVictor HugoGeorge Eliot OvidBarack ObamaFranz KafkaDenis Waitley BuddhaRobert Bulwer-LyttonRush LimbaughJohn le CarreStephen FryMikhail BakuninH. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Thomas KempisRyszard KapuscinskiAlfred AdlerPaul GillmorWilliam HurtGerrit SmithAndrew ShueArmstrong WilliamsArthur AsheDale EarnhardtRobin TrowerSigourney WeaverEdward de BonoJohn W. GardnerFriedrich August von Hayek
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