#striving

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#inspirational #perseverance #striving #success #faith

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. ↗

— Lloyd Banks

#because #corners #everybody #feel #get

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#be happy #comfort #constantly #enthusiastic #fame

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. ↗

— Buddha

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Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#dominance #maintain #middle-class #norms #prevail

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#around #boxer #confidence #dance #dreams

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential. ↗

— Brad Henry

#excellence #expectations #full #only #our

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity. ↗

— William Hurt

#being famous #famous #feel #make #me

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#jewel #joy #prize #striving #toy