Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.
Abby Johnson
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.
Abraham Lincoln
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Not to say that you shouldn't strive for success, but don't forget why you're doing it. It's not just for adoration.
Adrian Grenier
You can always imagine the unexpected and strive for it. You may never get there, but it's always a good thing to have.
Adriano Zumbo
God always strives together with those who strive.
Aeschylus
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
Aesop
I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.
Alan Alda
Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
Alan Ball
I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein
We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.
Aldo Leopold
I have to be honest and say that I never really feel like there's one person that I really want to cook for. I just want my food to always get better and always be evolving and for there to always be movement in what I make. I would say I strive for that more than anything else.
Alex Guarnaschelli
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production.
Alex Tabarrok
Every actor strives to be in the moment, and when you're on a horse, you constantly have to communicate with it and assert your authority.
Alexander Dreymon
Everyday I strive to, at least, recognise my short-comings and the things I have to do to be the best person that I can possibly be.
Alexander O'Neal
Let's all strive to be more entrepreneurial, and I think we'll all be in a better place.
Alexis Ohanian
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.
Alfred Molina
Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.
If you look from my point of view, that's what Christians strive for - love from God.
Parents who achieve a successful work-life balance don't live and breathe to make their kids happy. Instead, they strive to raise independent children that will grow to become responsible adults.
It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.
My mother's openness has remained inspiring to me. I strive to be a skeptic, in the best sense of that word: I question everything, and yet I'm open to everything. And I don't have immovable beliefs. My values shift and grow with my experiences - and as my context changes, so does what I believe.
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.
Some really good players are coming out of county cricket. Better preparation, and looking after yourself physically are things that counties should still have to strive for. Also, the volume of county cricket is still far too high. I'd definitely like less county cricket.
I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.
I come from a sports background and the spirit was always alive to strive for more, and better.
Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.
We never go overboard and above people's heads. We strive to retain that energy, that spirit we've always had. We feel the more simple and original something is, the better.
You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.
I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.
I enjoy taking on complex, difficult characters and have always striven to capture the truth of those people, whether or not it's popular.
Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.
None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
I strive for perfection, but I'm not perfect. But what I can say is my morals are totally different than any other 24-year-old rapper my age now. I look at life totally different. A whole other aspect. I have different views and morals on life in general. And opinions.
That top 100 is a big barrier that every tennis player strives to break into.
I think the music I make is true to my life. A lot of people can relate to it. It is real. I'm just saying it how it is - I don't sugar-coat it. If you are an ambitious person, you want to strive for more. I want to do it all.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Under my leadership, the government will strive for peace and will not miss an opportunity to bring about regional change.
Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!
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.
