#strive

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#stars #straw #strives #stumbles #touch

Don't underestimate the effects of complacency … cobwebs are deceptively heavy and are hard to shake loose. ↗

— Erica Goros

#inspiration #keep-going #strive #inspirational

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#doubting #doubts #effort #efforts #mankind

Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me? ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#blessings #dream #kindness #knowledge #powerful

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people. ↗

— Andrew Johnson

#government #people #poor #rich #rich people

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#gives #hate #hope #i #liberation

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#end #faithful #generations #glorious #heritage

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. ↗

— James Thurber

#die #learn #men #running #should

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better. ↗

— David Walliams

#again #anything #better #bit #confident

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing. ↗

— John Webster

#fashioned #heaven #nothing #ourselves #strive