Strive Quotes - Page 14

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.

What I really appreciate about the music that I grew up to is that I feel like I can put it on now and still hear something new. It's still relevant. That's how I want my music to be perceived. It's what I strive for.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

All composite things decay. Strive diligently.

You yourself must strive. The Buddhas only point the way.

All composite things pass away. Strive for your own liberation with diligence.

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

Those with certain temperaments find no way to endure themselves except by striving towards going under.

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

God helps him who strives hard.

I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.

A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.

God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover.

I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to their daily lives and future work in court and social service systems.

That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf.

To transform the world women need to strive for authenticity.

Strive to be the very best at whatever you undertake in life.

Nobody's perfect but I definitely strive.

Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.