#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

Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#brazilian music #concept #disciplined #harmonies #i

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see. ↗

— John Masefield

#earthly #few #hate #ignorance #know

I think that ultimately over time we really should strive for a place where most information is available online and is searchable. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

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