#strive

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#act #attain #beauty #chaos #convert

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#aim high #alone #behave #best #capable

I would want to teach my children someday that they should strive to be successful. ↗

— Michael Grimm

#i #should #someday #strive #successful

The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#best #country #fact #his #mindful

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#himself #impossible #man #only #strives

I strive to be brief but I become obscure. ↗

— Horace

#brief #i #obscure #strive

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#consistent #double #freedom #goal #logical

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#fallen #hero #heroic #heroism #impossible

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#being #doing #expanding #goes #i

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence. ↗

— Buddha

#compounded #diligence #inherent #strive #things