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strivings

«In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves»
«Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted»
«How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.»
«One ever feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.»
«But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.»
«Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.»
«I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»
«I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it»
«A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.»
«Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.»

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