There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.
Elihu Root

There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the feeling behind the rhythm... to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove.
Max Weinberg

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
Sophocles

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
Nicolas Cage

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.
Alfred Molina

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
Henry Van Dyke

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Samuel Johnson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

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.
Baltasar Gracian

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

We always strive to be the best in the wage package.
James Sinegal

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
George W. Bush

We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.
Nursultan Nazarbayev

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
Kofi Annan

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

We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
Zbigniew Brzezinski

We strive for error-free medicine in a world that is sometimes all too human.
Michael Burgess

We will strive to make Taiwan a better place and enable our people to live better lives.
Chen Shui-bian

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.
Eamon de Valera