“ Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time. ”
- Brenda Ueland- Copy
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“ Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve. ”
- Ryszard Kapuscinski- Copy
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“ I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves. ”
- Abraham J. Heschel- Copy
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“ Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work? ”
- William Allingham- Copy
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“ The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will. ”
- David Allman- Copy
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“ Honor is like a widow, won With brisk attempt and putting on. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. ”
- Robert K. Greenleaf- Copy
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“ Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. ”
- Samuel Daniel- Copy
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“ Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied. ”
- John L. Lewis- Copy
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“ The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving. ”
- Franz Kafka- Copy
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“ Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving, if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre. ”
- David Sarnoff- Copy
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“ Life has… taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God. ”
- Alan Paton- Copy
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“ Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. "God wishes," said Calvin, "that one should put aside all humanity when it is a question of striving for His glory.". ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. ”
- Kenny Ausubel- Copy
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“ If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Virtues are acquired through endeavor,Which rests wholly upon yourself.So, to praise others for their virtuesCan but encourage one's own efforts. ”
- Nagarjuna- Copy
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“ No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible. ”
- Baudjuin- Copy
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“ Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. ”
- John Haggai- Copy
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“ The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ”
- Socrates- Copy
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“ He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return. ”
- Baruch Spinoza- Copy
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“ The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition. ”
- Baruch Spinoza- Copy
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