Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
Robert Browning

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo

Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
Jose Marti

God always strives together with those who strive.
Aeschylus

Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
John Webster

I am saying that in Wales here we have a very clear election commitment and I hope, and I will express this view, I hope that every individual member of the Labour Party, will understand that and will strive to achieve unity so that we can deliver the yes vote in the Autumn.
Ron Davies

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
Vachel Lindsay

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
Paul Theroux

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.
Will Smith

I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
Eamon de Valera

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
Helmut Jahn

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.
Horace

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Baltasar Gracian

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.
Josefa Iloilo

I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
Dan Fouts

If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

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

If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence.
James Wood

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
Andre Maurois