#striving

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#among #become #cannot #claim #disputes

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. ↗

— Ovid

#denied #ever #forbidden #striving #us

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#awaken #been #discovered #discovery #down

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. ↗

— Frances Rodman

#brave #brightness #courage #fail #faith

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#always #apple #back #business #came

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence. ↗

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

#fair #her #lily #precedence #rose

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. ↗

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

#dictionary #even #precede #remember #striving

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world. ↗

— Islom Karimov

#deeds #good #good deeds #goodness #justice

People striving for approval from others become phony. ↗

— Ichiro Suzuki

#become #others #people #phony #striving