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strive

«To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.»

Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Keywords: strive, yield

«To have Goals is to have a future, because without goals we will strive for nothing.»

Author: Andrew Ridings | Keywords: future, goals, strive

«Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection that we forget that imperfection is happiness»

Author: Karen Nave | Keywords: forget, hard, imperfection, perfection, strive, strived, striven

«Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning»

Author: Ludwig van Beethoven (Composer) | Keywords: strive, unattainable

«The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.»

Author: Wendell Berry | About: Past | Keywords: adding, definition, escape, strive

«To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.»

Author: Henry Van Dyke (Essayist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: aim, all of, All of Us, choice, for all, haven, havens, increase, mankind, possible worlds, sail, service, strive, surely, This is a, virtue, welfare

«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.»

Author: Swami Vivekananda (Spiritual leader) | Keywords: at the same time, encourage, high time, ideal, live up to, near, strive, struggle

«The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.»

Author: Abraham Lincoln (President) | Keywords: All of Us, obligation, strive, The sense, to that

«Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.»