"With ills unending strives the putter off."
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"Winning once is never anyone's dream. We all want to keep winning no matter what it is, or if we retire, we all still are striving toward something, probably most of us are."
"Let us live in the harness, striving mightily."
"I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well"
"What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended."
"It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive."
"We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better."
"A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence."
"If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of."
"A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time."
"I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize."
"A good person, striving dimly, Is well aware of the right path."
"I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?"
"so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it."
"My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things."
"I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally."
"God helps him who strives hard."
"Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony."
"Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe."
"When you are in love you strive to do the things that will please your lover."