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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
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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
George Eliot 
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
Marc Chagall
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Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.
David Sarnoff
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Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
John le Carre
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I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
Arthur Ashe
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Pope Paul VI
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Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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