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.
There are people that will settle for nothing, people that will fight for something, and those that are fooled striving to have everything.
Always strive to stay on top even when all the chips are down.
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
I'm striving toward this acting thing. I'm definitely gonna work hard on that, whatever comes my way, I'm gonna work hard on it.
In one of the largest surveys of its kind to date, nearly 30,000 women told researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine that they'd rather lose weight than attain any other goal, a figure that alone suggests just how complicated t...
Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from such a bleak despondency is to shape humiliation ...
The aspirant would do well to avoid those ‘spiritual teachers’ who delight in pointing out the evils of the world. These are immature egos attempting to discard their own negativities by projecting them onto others. The true yogi is one who is li...
Even though I am extremely blessed to have accomplished many of my goals at such a young age, I am still reaching, still striving.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.
Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.
People always say to me, 'You've really strived to redefine retail.' But the reality is, I wanted to redefine magazines.
Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
Great people never sleep because their dreams keep them awake and striving.
...it is precisely because the world appears to us to be multiple, ambiguous, and paradoxical, that we must strive to speak and write clearly.
