Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.
In everything I write, I'm always striving to hit the right mix of light and darkness, humor and pain, fun and seriousness.
To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.
The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.
People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party.
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
Every precious thing that you want out of life starts from believing that you possess an unstoppable drive to continuously strive and thrive.
Moving forward should always be your one and only option to abide by in all circumstances. We were born to continuously strive and thrive.
The journey is never over until you stop pushing. Focus on the prize and keep striving. You truly deserve some bigger and better blessings.
Why envy someone else's success when God has already blessed you with a mind to strive and achieve yours?
The presence of fear doesn't mean that you lack what it takes to strive and win. It only means that you stepping into a whole new territory.
