Strive Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old strive quotes, strive sayings, and strive proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets. Rasheed Ogunlaru
Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture. J. C. Ryle
The effort to strive for truth has to precede all other efforts. Albert Einstein
We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery. Marcelo Gleiser
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. EO Wilson
Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself. Benjamin Franklin
We must strive to be like the moon. Ishmael Beah
Strive to make every person feel special. After all, every person you meet is made in the image of God. Joel Osteen
To strive for the absolute truth, is to drop yourself and look for life that is happening beyond yourself. Roshan Sharma
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do not strive to be perfect. Strive to be perfectly imperfect. Imania Margria
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. Pat Riley
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive. Mahatma Gandhi
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it. Wendell Berry
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. Dan Millman
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty. George Washington
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford
Do your best, and be a little better than you are. Gordon B. Hinckley
For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos. Chuang Tzu
And do as adversaries do in law, / Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. William Shakespeare
Who strives always to the utmost, / For him there is salvation. Goethe
This is what it is to be human; to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving— and to act, to strive. Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson
The steady aim of this nation, as of all enlightened nations, should be to strive to bring ever nearer the day when there shall prevail throughout the world the peace of justice. Theodore Roosevelt
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 in life. Madeleine Albright
The future is not one of ease or resting but one of incessant striving so that we may fulfill the pledges we have so often taken and the one we shall take today. Jawaharlal Nehru
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful. Oscar Wilde
To strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case. Wayne Dyer
To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now. Fred Rogers