John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection."
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Strive
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Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Politician, Lawyer
"I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation."
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"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"
Thomas Keller
Chef, Restaurateur
"It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving."
Hillel the Elder
Religious Leader, Scholar
"In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human."
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"Cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day."
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"Always strive to give your spouse the very best of yourself; not what's leftover after you have given your best to everyone else."
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"You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?"
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"Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online."
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"Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal."
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"To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading."
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"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."
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"I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All."
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"Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so."
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"Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for."
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"Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come."
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"Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life."
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"What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within."
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"Rather than caring about whether or not you are known, strive to be worth knowing."
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"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."
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"Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible."
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"Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment."
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"All things pass... Patience attains all it strives for."
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"We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable."
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"A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism."
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