Quotes about Strive

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations. Reactive quitting and serial quitting are the bane of those that strive (and fail) to get what they want. And most people do just that. They quit when it's painful and stick when they can't be bothered to quit.

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

Getting over an unfavorable impression is ever so much easier than living up to an ideal.

The idol from which we strive to get life determines what behaviors we must display and what realities we must conceal.

It was C. S. Lewis who observed that there exists in every church something that sooner or later works against the very purpose for which it came into existence. So we must strive very hard, by the grace of God to keep the church focused on the mission that Christ originally gave to it.

Scripture speaks of a holiness which we have in Christ before God and a holiness which we must strive after.

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.