(208 quotes found)
“I'll not willingly offend, Nor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll strive to mend, And endure what can't be mended”
Isaac Watts
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”
Chuang Tzu
“Doesn't matter what other people do. The only competition you should beat is yourself. So strive to be better each day.”
Sheila dela Pena
“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.”
Will Smith
“The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.”
Wendell Berry
“And strive hard in (the way of) Allah, (such) a striving a is due to Him; He has chosen you and has not laid upon you an hardship in religion; the faith of your father Ibrahim; He named you Muslims before and in this, that the Apostle may be a bearer”
quran
“And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw”
Edmund Spenser
“He considered that immortality was the only goal worth striving for. He knew it was not something you automatically get for believing in some arbitrary dogma like Christianity or Islam. It is something you have to work and fight for, like everything else in life.”
William S. Burroughs
“One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
