#strive

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#daily #earnestly #heart #his #lean

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it? ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#afloat #beyond #himself #his #horizon

Only the insecure strive for security. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#only #security #strive

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#choice #desire #doing #good #happiness

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#cannot #command #everything #hour #only

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#feel #future #own #ownership #people

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#consult #doing #effectually #help #help others

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#charity #finish #firmness #gives #god

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#recognized #strive #worry #worthy #you

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ↗

— Charles de Lint

#everything #indeed #known #left #life