All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one's condition, and is thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a new striving. We see striving everywhere inhibited...
Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
Strive for perfection. Nobody's going to be perfect on this earth. But strive for perfection.
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Ye may not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope.
God always strives together with those who strive.
Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference, ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your own being.
Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.
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.
When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.
Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.
Many people strive for success in order to find happiness when, in fact, the inverse is true. Strive for happiness and you shall find success.
When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love.
In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.
, a collateral form of (the so-called "holy war"), taken [by Sufis] to mean "earnest striving after the mystical life." The term is based on the Koranic text, "And they that strive earnestly in Our cause, them We surely guide upon Our paths." A Tradi...
The best parenting strives to educate their children in HOW TO LIVE LIFE -- competitive, compassionate, void of greed, & striving to make a better world.
The bitter cup we strive to remove from us holds the medicine we are most in need of.
When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
