Strive Quotes - Page 6

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift.

All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.

Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it. What it is for which we strive is up to each of us. The important thing is that we strive toward something.

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.

The striving from servant, the blessings from Almighty God.

Be cheerful . Strive to be happy.

Goodness strives not, and therefore it is not rebuked.

In striving to produce an attractive headline, the copywriter should not emphasize the "quick, easy way" to such an extent that the headline becomes unbelievable.

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.