#strive

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. ↗

— George W. Bush

#choose #dictators #differences #free #free nations

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#i #i think #make #our #quality

I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible. ↗

— Dan Fouts

#bowl #everything #fame #get #hall

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#completely #feel #intensely #needs #ruthlessly

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#element #happiness #indestructible #perfect #possibility

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#encourage #every #highest #his #idea

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God. ↗

— Billy Graham

#anyone #avoid #except #god #offending

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

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

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